Biography
Peter Dormer (b. Fakenham, Norfolk, UK 1949 - d. London 1996) attended Walter Gropius and E. Maxwell Fry's Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire followed by two years at art school at Bath Academy of Art, in Corsham, and then at Manchester. Between 1969 and 1972 Dormer read Philosophy at Bristol University and then worked as a teacher and in local government. He was the Assistant Education Officer, London Borough of Havering (1976-79); Assistant to Chief Education Officer, London Borough of Brent (1979-81) and Councillor, Ealing Borough Council (1978-8). 2In 1978 he had begun to write for Art Monthly magazine, contributing a regular "Artlobby" column, then under the inspired editorship of Peter Townsend.
Dormer was also Reviews Editor, Crafts (1981-83); Co-director, Design Analysis International (1987-90); Visiting Fellow in the Critical Appreciation of the Applied Arts, University of East Anglia (1994-96). He was author of The New Jewelry (1985), The New Ceramics (1986), The New Furniture (1987), Meanings in Modern Design (1990), Design since 1945 (1993), The Art of the Maker (1994), Jewelry of our Time (with Helen Drutt) (1995) amongst others.In 1994 he was the Crafts buyer fo rthe Contemporary Art Society concentrating on furniture that illustrated a range of craft, art, and design ideas.
