Ben Kelly (designer)
Ben Kelly is a British interior designer, who owns interior design firm Ben Kelly Design. He has also won awards for graphic design.
Biography
Kelly grew up in the village of Appletreewick in North Yorkshire.[1] He graduated in Interior Design from the Royal College of Art in 1974.[2]
He is cited by The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design as a "hugely influential interior designer",[3] and by Kingston University as "one of the UK's most influential interior designers".[4] He is best known for his interior design of The Haçienda in Manchester, which he converted from a yacht showroom, retaining its red brick facade, inner columns and large iron doors.[5] He did much other work for Factory Records, including their 1990 company office in Charles Street, Manchester.[6]
He has collaborated extensively with graphic designer Peter Saville, with Saville basing much of his early work on Kelly's.[7] Kelly and Saville won a Designers and Art Directors Award for the sleeve of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's self-titled first album.[8]
In the 1970s, manager Malcolm McLaren asked Kelly to refurbish a basement rehearsal room for The Sex Pistols in Denmark Street, London, which McLaren had bought from Badfinger.[9] Kelly also designed the colourful entrance to the underground Gymbox in London,[3] and is a furniture designer.[10] He is a research fellow of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University,[4] and a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).[11]
References
- ↑ "Ben Kelly paints the town international orange". Creative Times. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ↑ "Ben Kelly Jewellery". EigerGallery.com. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- 1 2 Coates, Brooker & Stone 2009, p. 132.
- 1 2 "Mr Ben Kelly". The Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture , Kingston University, London. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ↑ Hessler 2008, p. 292.
- ↑ Shadowplayers, pp. 368, 388, 401-402.
- ↑ Shadowplayers, pp. 92-93. "I thought I could just take things from Ben," admits Saville, "like he was a reference book or something. He used to get really mad about it."
- ↑ Shadowplayers, p. 99.
- ↑ Matovina 2000, p. 303.
- ↑ Designer. Society of Industrial Artists and Designers. 1987. p. 56.
- ↑ "Current Royal Designers". The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- Bibliography
- Coates, Michael; Brooker, Graeme; Stone, Sally (6 January 2009). The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design. AVA Publishing. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-940373-80-2.
- Hessler, Martina; Zimmermann, Clemens (2008). Creative Urban Milieus: Historical Perspectives on Culture, Economy, and the City. Campus Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-38547-1.
- Matovina, Dan (2000). Without You: The Tragic Story of "Badfinger". Frances Glover Books. ISBN 978-0-9657122-2-4.
- Nice, James (2011) [2010]. Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records (paperback ed.). London: Aurum Press. ISBN 978 1 84513 634 5.