Though the Moorcroft brand of high quality handmade art pottery grew out of a design studio within a large ceramics factory over a hundred years ago, history shows a re-emergence in the mid-1980s to early 1990s of a strong business model again and the production of the beautiful and colourful designs that are well known [...]
From small beginnings in 1961 as a pottery company sprang the homesware business which Portmeirion is today .It has grown to become a significant force in the homesware industry, and justifiably boasts “having a strong international following and an established reputation for high quality and innovative design.” Though the excellent Portmeirion products have changed over [...]
In the 1960s, stainless-steel tableware was particularly in vogue. The Scandinavians did much to exploit the potential of stainless-steel, and A.S.Stelton were fortunate to team- up with Arne Jacobsen (b.1902,d.1971) who created an award-winning range of tableware between 1964 and 1967, called the “Cylinda -Line”. The “Cylinda-Line” coffee pot from the range (illustrated above) has [...]