Industrial Design Competition (Royal Society of Arts), 1924-1934

Start Date: 1924
End Date: 1934

Type: Competition

Description: The RSA approached firms and individuals to offer additional prizes. In the first competition over £1000 worth of prizes and travelling scholarships were offered. Selected designs were exhibited in London. There were ten competitions, and 10,269 competitors. £11,550 was awarded in prizes throughout the course of the awards.

The prize was dissolved in 1934 owing to financial difficulties at the RSA.

Policy: An annual competition, the suggestion of Sir Frank Warner (silk manufacturer), organised to give support to young designers.

Citing this record

'Industrial Design Competition (Royal Society of Arts), 1924-1934', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib4_1276865283, accessed 02 Jun 2023]