Christopher Dresser (1834-1904), an English botanist and scholar of the decorative arts was probably the first industrial designer in the modern sense of the term. He embraced all the implications of industrial mass-production, unlike his Arts and Crafts Movement contemporaries,  aligning this to the design of bold and highly visionary crafted objects. This teapot (1879) is unbelievably ahead of its time.

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