The New Lloyd’s
Peter Campbell, 24 July 1986
William Richard Lethaby
by Godfrey Rubens.
Architectural Press, 320 pp., £30, April 1986,0 85139 350 0 Show More
by Godfrey Rubens.
Architectural Press, 320 pp., £30, April 1986,
“... it was his work as teacher and writer which gave a new rationale for industrial design. Godfrey Rubens illustrates the move by comparing a cabinet by Lethaby of 1890, a piece ‘designed on paper by one man and carried out by another – albeit a skilled carver’, with a chest of a year later, a design which arose from ‘the mere putting ... ”