Designers & Modelers

A selection of the most influential designers and modellers to have worked for Wade.

Faust Lang was born to Andreas and Lucie Lang in Oberammergau in Southern Germany. Lang’s father and grandfather were wood carvers in Oberammergau, and his father also played St. Peter in the Passion Play in …

Colin Melbourne

Colin Melbourne was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire in 1928. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, which he attended from 1949 to 1951. Shortly after this he was …

Jessie Van Hallen

William Harper is without doubt one of the most influential people to have worked for Wades and created many of the most loved Wade pieces. He was a modeller for …