John Crichton was born in Bombay in 1917 and moved to England as a child. He studied at Birmingham College of Art. During World War II, he served as an official war photographer.
He moved to New Zealand in 1949, establishing John Crichton Limited, in Auckland in 1951, offering interior design services. He designed and sold furniture, lighting and ceramics. and was an artist working in mosaics, pen and ink and watercolour. Crichton was able to promote his designs beyond New Zealand, featuring chairs and lamps in the British journal Decorative Art: the studio yearbook in 1955 and 1957.
He was a founder of the New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers (NZSID) in 1959, elected to membership soon after the Society's incorporation in 1960, and served on its council to 1966.
Crichton died in New Zealand on 7 January 1993. Examples of his work are held in the collections more...
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