Price: 195.000000 GBP The ‘Romana’ vase is one of the most elegant designs of the 1960s, with its balanced choice of colours and form. I love the design so much that I used another example on the back cover of ‘Hi Sklo Lo Sklo’, my first book on Czech glass. Designed by Hana Machovska in […]
Price: 55.000000 GBP Comprised of flat planes of geometric forms, a harmonic sense of perspective and overlapping is gained by the use of colour – orange, blue, cream, grey, and pink. The rounded shapes and colour palette used are typical of the 1960s & 70s, and the overall style of the work is typical of […]
Price: 175.000000 GBP Comprised of flat planes of geometric forms, a harmonic sense of perspective and overlapping is gained by the use of colours – orange, blue, cream, grey, and pink. The rounded shapes and colour palette used are typical of the 1960s & 70s, and the overall style of the work is typical of […]
Price: 350.000000 GBP The bubbly ‘antique glass’ range was the first official range designed by Emanuel Beránek (1899-1972) at his new Skrdlovice factory, and was produced from 1942 until c1950. As resources available to Beránek at the time were basic, he devised a type of glass that would hide imperfections. Salts such as sodium carbonate […]
Price: 175.000000 GBP The instantly–recognisable Harrtil range was one of Harrach’s most important ranges during the 1950s. The idea of using woven glass fibres (from Czech manufacturer Vertex) inside layers of glass was devised by their head of production Miloš Půlpitel in 1954, after he was inspired by antique Venetian ‘lace’ glass and (reputedly) seeing […]
Price: 165.000000 GBP Designed by Rudolf Beránek in 1969, this appears in the Skrdlovice factory pattern book as pattern number 6913. It follows a range of vases and sculptural forms in organic, asymmetric, and biomorphic forms designed around 1960 by Emanuel Beránek, Rudolf’s uncle and the founder of the Skrdlovice company.The form is typical of […]
Price: 195.000000 GBP This is one of Milan Metelák’s earliest publicised designs for Harrach, and is typical of one key aspect of 1950s design in that it takes its inspiration from nature. In glass, this trend was led by Scandinavian designers, and its success meant that Czech glass designers also pursued it. In Metelák’s design […]
Price: 240.000000 GBP Mid-century modern Hungarian ceramics are a relatively new collecting area, but they were placed firmly on the map by the exhibition of ceramics from the Graham Cooley Collection in 2015, and the accompanying book ‘Forma Hungarica: Post-War Hungarian Ceramics’ by Peter Langh.From my private collection comes this bizarre beast, a jardinière in […]
Price: 50.000000 GBP In West German Pottery from the 1950s-70s, Ruscha is a legendary name. Founded in 1905, the company employed many of the most talented designers and glaze technicians to come up with many forms and decors that are highly sought–after by collectors today. This appealing decor is possibly a variant of ‘Zebra’, designed […]
Price: 195.000000 GBP Out of all the glass that I’ve found recently, this is one of my absolute favourites. The organic, floriform shape, the curve, and the colours all work so very well together – it’s a hugely appealing design that is also typical of the period.Although no paperwork has been found to confirm the […]
Price: 95.000000 GBP Originally known only as ‘The Flower Painter’, the designer of these quirky, cool and quasi-kitsch mid-century modern ceramics has now been revealed to be an Italian lady called Milvia. She was the designer for a company called Quadrifoglio – the Italian word for ‘four-leafed clover’ – which was founded in 1955 and […]
Price: 85.000000 GBP Launched in 1964, and designed by the multi-talented Jan Gabrhel (1930-2017), this range was described in Czechoslovak Glass Review as “entirely modern”. Always in ‘Garnet’ red, it was available in a variety of mould-blown shapes, including eight different vases, bowls, and decanters. The “strictly geometrical” forms were decorated with thin gilt bands […]