Robert Best

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For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress. Robert Best, one of Britain's leading industrialists in this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by Modernism's promoters, for reasons that they found hard to understand. If the few knew better than the many, and had an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society prided itself on? Best felt that the campaign to popularise Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had uncomfortable political overtones. In this extraordinary memoir, written in the early 1950s but never previously published, Best explored his concern about the sense of noblesse oblige that lay behind such bodies as the Council of Industrial Design, set up in 1944 ostensibly to raise the saleability and quality of British manufacturing but also, in his view, to brainwash the public into denying what it liked in favour of more cultivated but untested alternatives.

AN ARCHIVAL RESOURCE ON EDUCATION FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How progressive schooling inspired creativity in the early 1900s Robert Best and his younger brother Frank were brought up in prosperous middle-class Birmingham in the 1890s. Their father ran Britain's most successful lighting factory, wanted his boys to enter the business, and sent them to the best art school in Germany to learn their trade, because of his admiration for German innovation. Each spent a year there, befriending the families they stayed with. But within a few years of returning to England, war broke out and both eagerly enlisted in the army. How was it possible for allies to become enemies, and what motivated the boys' enthusiasm to fight? In this memoir of the first two decades of the 20th century, Robert Best recalls the idealistic values that the boys learned while attending the most progressive boarding school of the time - Bedales - and how the spirit of the school carried them through the challenges of trench warfare in Northern France. He talks in fascinating detail about what they learned at school and as enthusiastic First World War pilots in the Royal Flying Corps, of the boys' inventiveness and humour, and of their shared ambition to become music hall entertainers.