Honeybourne Bright Cutlery

Design Story: Honeybourne

Robert Welch trained as a silversmith before moving across to industrial design. He considered that "products may be designed to embody warmth of feeling and tactility which transcend impersonalised methods of production" and that "the silver workshop can become the laboratory of design and research for industrial forms".

Honeybourne blends these two worlds. For the textured decoration on the handles Kit deBretton Gordon took inspiration from the round handled planishing technique used by silversmiths to bend, shape and smooth silver. The way the hammered finish fades makes it seem as if each piece were a work in progress.