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Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was a British manufacturer deeply involved with the Modern design movement in and immediately after the interwar years. He took over Best & Lloyd, his father's light industrial engineering works in Birmingham, having previously trained as a metal designer at art school in Düsseldorf.
"The Birth-place of Birmingham Art" - Joseph Barber's studio in Edmund Street, Birmingham Birmingham's tradition in applied arts such as jewellery and metalwork predates the Industrial Revolution, [2] but organised activity in the fine arts of drawing, painting and printmaking began only with the town's huge growth in size and wealth in the 18th century, [3] after the growing realisation of ...
Andy Hamilton. Jazz has been popular in the city since the 1920s. [33] The Harmonic Festival, [34] the Mostly Jazz Festival [35] and the annual International Jazz Festival run alongside the year-round contemporary programme presented by promoters and development agency Jazzlines, which is now integrated into Performances Birmingham Limited that runs Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall ...