page_title: Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley
section_title: The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop
hierarchical_section_title: Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley / Career / The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop
caption_attribution_description: English: Wesley House Wikidata has entry Q7983934 with data related to this item.This is a photo of listed building number 1416617.
context_page_description: Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley MBE is a letter-cutter, typeface designer, author and publisher and runs the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge. She is considered the foremost letter-cutter currently working in the United Kingdom and is "dedicated to the increase of good lettering in the world". Her work in slate, stone and other media includes carved memorials, plaques, inscriptions and sundials which can be seen at many public locations in the United Kingdom and beyond. Her works include the ledger stone for the grave of William Blake at Bunhill Fields. With her first husband David Kindersley she also designed the main gates for the British Library.
context_section_description: The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge was established by Lida and David Kindersley and since 1977 has occupied its current location in a converted Victorian school.  Lida trains apprentices in lettercutting by hand, each usually staying at the workshop for three years.
  Lida and David co-authored a number of publications on the art of lettering, their workshop, and the importance of apprenticeship. Lida has continued to write on these and other subjects and also publishes works through the Cardozo Kindersley imprint.
caption: Entrance to Wesley House, Cambridge, designed by Lida Cardozo Kindersley
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