Johnny Grey (designer)
Johnny Grey (born 1951) is a British designer of kitchens.
Background
Grey received various awards, including the Simon Taylor Award[1] for lifetime achievement in the kitchen industry. As well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Artsandliveryman at the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, he is currently Visiting Professor of Design and Kitchen Culture[2] at Buckinghamshire New University.
Bibliography
Grey's first book The Art of Kitchen Design (Cassell 1994) that included the first social history of the kitchen, has sold 125,000 copies worldwide, a large proportion in the USA and in print continuously for fourteen years. In 1997 Grey published The Hardworking House (Cassell). Grey's Kitchen Workbook (1997) started a new series of home design books by Dorling Kindersley and has now sold over 150,000 in 11 languages. The Complete Home Design Workbook followed in 1998, co-authored with others from Dorling Kindersley's Home Design series. Kitchen Culture[3] was published by Jacqui Small in 2004, with English, American, Russian and Asian editions.
Media and consultancy work
In 2008 Grey was invited onto the judging panel of the Electrolux Global Design Awards[4] in Stockholm. He joined the panel of the Hettich International Design Awards in 2009.
External links
- Johnny Grey website
- Grey Matters Blog
- Fantasy kitchens (The Times)
- 'Soft Geometry' In Kitchen Design (New York Times)
- Food in a Custom Setting (New York Times)
- Books at Amazon.com
- Unfitted Kitchens Article (Telegraph)
- Kitchen Design Ideas: An Interview With Johnny Grey
- The center of the home: The kitchen island
- A Cook Rewrites The Book On Kitchen Design With Ergonomically Correct Ideas
- Kitchen Design Ideas: An Interview With Johnny Grey
- Johnny Grey labels kitchen sector 'apathetic'
- Johnny Grey on Kitchens of the Future
- Wall Street Journal: A Kitchen to Comfort Your Soul
- Elle Decor: Meet Johnny Grey
- the Guardian: Windows of the mind
- Financial Times: All in the mind
- Country Life: The psychology of the kitchen
References
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