Robert Dudley Best

Robert Dudley Best (1892-1984) was the heir to the world's largest lighting factory, founded in Birmingham in 1840. Despite its proud history, Best thought the lamp designs produced by the factory were outdated. In 1925, better visit the International Exhibition of Modern Design in Paris, where many of the designs on display were influenced by the work of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Inspired by what he had seen, Best began his studies in industrial design in Paris and Düsseldorf, where he became close friends with Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement. It was during this time that he made the first sketches of what would become the iconic Bestlite design.

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