This week's subject is David Mellor (1920-2009), the outstanding designer and manufacturer whose modern industrial and domestic designs have made such an impact on our daily lives. He was born in Sheffield and trained as a silversmith at Sheffield College of Art and the Royal College of Art. As Stephen Bayley wrote, "He was in every sense a modern industrial designer, and technologically adept, but his spiritual roots were in the arts and crafts movement and its belief, not so much in work-life balance as in work-life integration".