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[March 2008]
Lifetime Achievement Award Received by Robin Levien
Robin Levien, a Non Executive Design Director with Ideal Standard International, has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Homes & Gardens Classic Design Awards. The ceremony was held on 6 March 2008 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The award recognises Robin Levien’s outstanding contribution in ceramic design, in particular the bathroom industry. Elected by his peers, he has been a Royal Designer for Industry since 1995 and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Art since 2005. Highly acclaimed for the simple beauty and functionality of his designs, Robert Levien has become a name to be reckoned with in ceramics. Levien RDI is one of Britain’s most consistently successful product designers of the last 20 years. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1976, he gained many years’ experience as designer and senior partner in the design partnership Queensberry Hunt Levien. In 1999 he started his own practice, Studio Levien, with his partner Tricia Stainton and they now design for some of the leading companies world-wide specialising in domestic product design.
The award winning Studio collection is just one success story; this range that he designed over 20 years ago for Ideal Standard is still as popular today as when it was first launched. Studio is an example of his understated design, paired seamlessly with functionality offering an easy to live with bathroom solution.
Robert Levien said: “I am delighted and honoured to receive this award which came as a complete surprise to me. I have tried throughout my career to stay true to my beliefs and in that sense the award is as much for the customers who buy my design collections and continue to do so over the years. To gain the acknowledgement and the respect of my peers and the general public is almost reward enough”.
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