Russell, R. D. & Partners 1903 - 1981

R. D. Russell & Partners was an architectural and design firm established in London, England in 1946 by Richard Drew Russell (1903-1981.

Between the 1940s and 1970s Russell and his practice, in collaboration with GRL, also designed a wide range of furniture from one-off pieces, such as a table for President Eisenhower presented by the Queen and Prince Philip, to furniture for schools, offices, hotels and boardrooms. In addition, Russell designed low-cost furniture for the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society during the late 1940s and 1950s and for the P & O liner 'Oriana' between 1954-59. 

Russell designed the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the South Bank Exhibition of the Festival of Britain 1951, the remodelling the Greek Sculpture Galleries at the British Museum in the 1960s, and redesigned the Print Room and the Western Sculpture and Oriental Art Galleries at the BM (all with R.Y. Goodden).

With the death of Russell in 1981, the partnership was dissolved.