One of the most respected British designers of the 20th century, Robert Radford Welch MBE, RDI believed that everyone should be able to use beautifully designed products in everyday life. After training as a silversmith at the Royal College of Art in London, he specialised in design for stainless steel, establishing a company in his own name in 1955. Today, we work to ensure our rich legacy remains an inspiration to our Designers, whilst continuing to innovate in terms of technique and technology. Here we showcase some key designs from the last 70 years.
Campden
Robert Welch’s first design award was for the stainless-steel toast rack for Olde Hall Tableware which showed “the simplest solutions are often the best”.
Alveston
Iconic teapot shows how Robert Welch used stainless steel to craft the sculptural and functional form.
Prestige 4000 Series
The pressed stainless-steel of these utensils redefined the design of kitchen tools and established a new manufacturing system for their production.
V&A Candelabra
Silver candelabra commissioned for the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum revitalised the silversmith’s craft within a modern idiom.
Stanton
A lifetime of design excellence is honed to perfection in the first cutlery range to be manufactured under the name Robert Welch.
Signature Knives
Engineered from a single piece of stainless steel, each Signature kitchen knife is perfectly weighted and balanced.
Drift Pitcher
The elegant and functional Drift pitcher is perfectly balanced from its non-drip spouts to flowing handles.
Palm Salt and Pepper Mills
Fluted mills with black and white edging to denote the salt from the pepper includes a CrushGrind® ceramic mechanism that moves seamlessly from fine to coarse.
Future
Today’s Robert Welch team are fortunate enough to still be working in the same building where it all began 60 years ago. Robert Welch’s passion to create beautiful, functional, timeless products remains rooted in the company’s design DNA, ensuring his memory lives on.
Our values continue to run through our design philosophy, products, service, brand, and story. They are integral to everything we do, ensuring that our legacy will last well into the future.
