Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Held at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 24th September to 31st October.
Organised by the newly established Council of Industrial Design. The exhibition, which attracted 1,432,369, aimed to ‘promote by all practical means the improvements of design in products of British Industry’ in post-war Britain.
Over 3000 firms submitted 16,000 articles, all of new design and workmanship
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