Designer Rodney Fitch dies


Retail design guru who founded design consultancy Fitch died on Monday 20 October


Rodney Fitch, the retail designer and founder of the company FITCH, has died.

Regarded as one of the UK's foremost retail designers, Fitch founded the design company Fitch in 1972.
He was made (CBE) in 1990 for his 'influence on the British Design Industry'.

Paying tribute, FITCH chairman and chief creative officer Tim Greenhalgh said: 'Rodney was a truly great man and one to whom we, and the global design community, owe a huge debt of thanks and gratitude. He formed FITCH in 1972, and in doing so, created a design firm that was to be at the vanguard of the design industry. Many people who knew or worked with him have gone on to great things, benefitting from his knowledge, passion and leadership both in and out of FITCH.

Fitch died of cancer on 20 October.

In a written statement his family says: 'Rodney spent his last few weeks at his beautiful house in Wiltshire and passed away in the early hours of this morning peacefully surrounded by all his loving family.'

Morgan Furniture, for which Fitch was strategy and design consultant also paid tribute, saying: 'Morgan, the British furniture designer and manufacturer, is deeply saddened by the passing of Rodney Fitch who died on Monday 20th October. He was Strategy and Design Consultant at Morgan and renowned as a true legend within the world of design.'

 

 








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