NO STONE LEFT UNTURNED IN FAIRFORD BRIGHT’S ART DECO DESIGN

It was the carefully chiselled lines of the stonework around Robert Welch’s Cotswold design studio which inspired Head of Design Kit deBretton Gordon to create her new cutlery range. Surrounded by exquisite stonemasonry in Chipping Campden, Kit had long admired the angular lintels around the mullioned windows of the tiny shops and honey-coloured cottages. Fascinated by historic cutlery designs, Kit saw a synergy between this stonework and the linear detailing of Harley, an old Parish cutlery pattern inspired by Greco-roman architecture. It’s these Grecian lines which in turn informed the sweeping curves and geometric lines of Art Deco design.

And so, among the honey-coloured buildings of Chipping Campden – a testament to the timeless craftsmanship which has flourished here for centuries – Kit sat down to sketch. Her resulting cutlery range, with its bold, linear, Art Deco detailing, is what was to become the Fairford Bright collection.

1. It was the carefully chiselled lines of the stonework around Robert Welch’s Cotswold design studio which inspired Head of Design Kit deBretton Gordon to create her new cutlery range. Surrounded by exquisite stonemasonry in Chipping Campden, Kit had long admired the angular lintels around the mullioned windows of the tiny shops and honey-coloured cottages. Fascinated by historic cutlery designs, Kit saw a synergy between this stonework and the linear detailing of Harley, an old Parish cutlery pattern inspired by Greco-roman architecture. It’s these Grecian lines which in turn informed the sweeping curves and geometric lines of Art Deco design.

2. And so, among the honey-coloured buildings of Chipping Campden – a testament to the timeless craftsmanship which has flourished here for centuries – Kit sat down to sketch. Her resulting cutlery range, with its bold, linear, Art Deco detailing, is what was to become the Fairford Bright collection.

It was the carefully chiselled lines of the stonework around Robert Welch’s Cotswold design studio which inspired Head of Design Kit deBretton Gordon to create her new cutlery range. Surrounded by exquisite stonemasonry in Chipping Campden, Kit had long admired the angular lintels around the mullioned windows of the tiny shops and honey-coloured cottages.

1. It was the carefully chiselled lines of the stonework around Robert Welch’s Cotswold design studio which inspired Head of Design Kit deBretton Gordon to create her new cutlery range. Surrounded by exquisite stonemasonry in Chipping Campden, Kit had long admired the angular lintels around the mullioned windows of the tiny shops and honey-coloured cottages. Fascinated by historic cutlery designs, Kit saw a synergy between this stonework and the linear detailing of Harley, an old Parish cutlery pattern inspired by Greco-roman architecture. It’s these Grecian lines which in turn informed the sweeping curves and geometric lines of Art Deco design.

2. And so, among the honey-coloured buildings of Chipping Campden – a testament to the timeless craftsmanship which has flourished here for centuries – Kit sat down to sketch. Her resulting cutlery range, with its bold, linear, Art Deco detailing, is what was to become the Fairford Bright collection.

On her travels, she took photographs and studied the lines carved – the perfect curves of pillars, the sharp angles of cills. Her photographs are pinned in her sketch book, next to an image of a grand Spanish palace with a perfectly arched terrace.

Scribbled notes read: “Soft corners”, “Bevelled outline” and “Rounded inset” as her pen moves deftly from multi-faceted, geometrically chamfered handles and long blades through to mitred ends and back again. The result is a tasteful, modern take on a design classic – decorative without being ornate, glamorous without being formal. A collection which is as perfectly at home in fine dining settings as it is for family suppers.

1. On her travels, she took photographs and studied the lines carved – the perfect curves of pillars, the sharp angles of cills. Her photographs are pinned in her sketch book, next to an image of a grand Spanish palace with a perfectly arched terrace.

   Scribbled notes read: “Soft corners”, “Bevelled outline” and “Rounded inset” as her pen moves deftly from multi-faceted, geometrically chamfered handles and long blades through to mitred ends and back again. The result is a tasteful, modern take on a design classic – decorative without being ornate, glamorous without being formal. A collection which is as perfectly at home in fine dining settings as it is for family suppers.

On her travels, she took photographs and studied the lines carved – the perfect curves of pillars, the sharp angles of cills. Her photographs are pinned in her sketch book, next to an image of a grand Spanish palace with a perfectly arched terrace.

1. On her travels, she took photographs and studied the lines carved – the perfect curves of pillars, the sharp angles of cills. Her photographs are pinned in her sketch book, next to an image of a grand Spanish palace with a perfectly arched terrace.

   Scribbled notes read: “Soft corners”, “Bevelled outline” and “Rounded inset” as her pen moves deftly from multi-faceted, geometrically chamfered handles and long blades through to mitred ends and back again. The result is a tasteful, modern take on a design classic – decorative without being ornate, glamorous without being formal. A collection which is as perfectly at home in fine dining settings as it is for family suppers.