From Bedales to the Boche by Robert Best

From Bedales to the Boche by Robert Best

How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s

Gyles Brandreth: "A fascinating time capsule, beautifully written, beautifully observedA vivid portrait of several vanished worlds."

Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was an industrial designer, famous for creating the Bestlite, the first iconic modern object in 1930s Britain. Born into a privileged Birmingham family, he and his brother wanted to be music hall entertainers, but were derailed―first by their industrialist father, R.H. Best, who wanted them to work in his lighting factory and insisted they study at Germany’s best art school, in Duesseldorf, and then by WW1, which only Robert survived.   Robert went on to pen an appreciation of his father’s business innovations, an unpublished history of design in the early the 20th century, and a memoir with recollections of F.M. Alexander, the posture therapist and guru.

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ISBN 13	9781838172022
ISBN 10	1838172025
Title	From Bedales to the Boche
Author	Robert Best
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	EnvelopeBooks
Year published	2020-12-10
Number of pages	427
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