Paul Reilly, Baron Reilly

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Paul Reilly, Reilly Baron Kt (* 29. May 1912 in Toxteth , Liverpool ; † 11. October 1990 ) was a British journalist and designer , who from 1960 to 1977 director of the Council for Industrial Design ( Council of Industrial Design ) and 1978 was when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Studies, journalist and World War II

Reilly, whose father Charles Herbert Reilly Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool , was completed after visiting the Winchester College with a scholarship a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Hertford College of the University of Oxford , which he in 1933 completed. After completing a degree in business administration at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1933 to 1934 , he worked as a traveling salesman for the plywood company Venesta between 1934 and 1936 during a period of high unemployment and established numerous contacts with leading architects and their customers.

He then became a journalist for the newspaper News Chronicle in 1936, working in particular as assistant to editor-in-chief Gerald Barry , who encouraged him to travel to Great Britain with the photographer Barnett Saidman to write reports on buildings and design. In 1940 he was appointed editor of the News Chronicle's features .

During the Second World War , Reilly initially joined the Royal Armored Corps in 1940, before moving to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) between 1941 and 1946, where he was mainly employed in the intelligence service.

Promotion to director of the Design Council

After retiring from military service, in 1946 he worked for the specialist magazine Modern Plastics in New York City and, on his return to Great Britain in 1948 , met Gordon Russell , the newly appointed director of the Council of Industrial Design (COID), founded in 1944 , who made him an employee hired for press and public relations work for COID. The COID was founded during the war to promote all practical means for the improvement of products in British industry. In his work as press spokesman, he had the goal of increasing public awareness of design standards after the war-related years of austerity measures and rationing, and also organized a series of design weeks in rural areas and used his journalistic experience for corresponding articles in the publications of the COID. In the spring of 1950, he focused in particular on planning the Festival of Britain , a British exhibition on science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts that took place in the summer of 1951.

In the twelve-year collaboration with Russell, who focused primarily on craft design, Reilly dealt not only with press work, but also with the political orientation of the COID. In 1956, the Design Center at Haymarket in London began work with an exhibition of design products opened by the Prince Consort Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . In the following years he also took care of the annual Design Center Awards, which were given from 1957.

In 1960 he was elected to succeed Gordon Russell directors of industrial design ( Council of Industrial Design ) and has held this position until 1977. In this capacity, he developed the profession of industrial design ( Industrial designer ) At the same time, he acknowledged that by the Pop Art influenced design in the 1960s would have brought about a transformation of the traditional concept of design.

For his services, Reilly, who in 1961 was commander of the Wasa Order of Sweden and in 1965 was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA), was promoted to a Knight Bachelor degree on June 10, 1967 , and since then has had the suffix "Sir". During his tenure, he initiated the Craft Advisory Committee to support handicrafts and handmade products , from which today's Crafts Council emerged. In early 1972, the COID changed its name from Council of Industrial Design to Design Council . Keith Grant succeeded him as Director of the Design Council in 1977 .

He then became director of Conran Associates, founded by Terence Conran , and the Conran Foundation Boilerhouse , the forerunner of today's Design Museum London .

House of Lords and Honors

By a letters patent dated July 18, 1978, Reilly was elevated to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Reilly , of Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member.

Its official introduction ( House of Lords ) took place on July 24, 1978 with the support of George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter and Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm . During his upper house membership he belonged to the group of Crossbencher , the group of non-party members of the House of Lords.

He has been honored several times for his long service to design and craftsmanship in Great Britain, including honorary doctorates from Loughborough University (1977), the Royal College of Art (1978), Aston University (1981) and Cranfield University (1983).

Publications

  • The Influence of National Character on Design , In: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , October 1959, pp. 919-939
  • The First Josiah Wedgwood: A Model for To-day , co-author Arthur Bryan , 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Childs, Mike Storry (editor): Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture , p. 148, 1999, ISBN 0-41514-726-3
  2. ^ Design Council Slide Collection: an online guide to the resource
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Lomas (editor): Guide to the Archive of Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum , p. 75, 2001, ISBN 1-57958-315-6
  4. ^ Andrej Kupetz (editor): Günter Kupetz: Industrial Design , 2006, ISBN 3-76437-814-X
  5. ↑ Penny Sparke: An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present , p. 170, 2013, ISBN 0-41568-618-0
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44326, HMSO, London, June 2, 1967, p. 6270 ( PDF , accessed February 5, 2014, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44448, HMSO, London, November 10, 1967, p. 12217 ( PDF , accessed February 7, 2014, English).
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47557, HMSO, London, June 2, 1978, p. 6285 ( PDF , accessed February 5, 2014, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47596, HMSO, London, July 20, 1978, p. 8701 ( PDF , accessed February 7, 2014, English).
  10. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 24, 1978)
  11. ↑ Proof of publication (jstor.org)
  12. ↑ Proof of publication ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Reilly, Paul, Baron Reilly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British designer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Toxteth , Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1990