What's to love: Add a touch of color and retro-style to the kitchen with this coffee maker that is available in red, cream, white, blue and the more traditional black. What does it do: Put ground ...

William Russell, who died on February 16 aged 85, was the designer of the Russell Hobbs electric kettle, one of the most iconic domestic appliances of the post-war era. Russell went into business with ...

PETER Hobbs, the salesman half of Russell Hobbs, the British firm that introduced the electric kettle, which is one of the most emblematic domestic appliances of the post-war era, has died, aged 91.

Peter Hobbs, who died on April 11 aged 91, was the salesman half of Russell Hobbs, the firm made famous by the electric kettle which came to rank among the most iconic domestic appliances of the ...