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Who are the important British Domestic Glass designers of the 20th century?
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--- Quote from: Heidimin on September 22, 2007, 10:54:05 AM ---I'm not so sure about Annette Meech - but she was/is primarily an art glass designer.
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Where do you draw the line? There are some important studios that produce(d) domestic glassware. It just depends what your criteria are.
Just because it was hand made doesn't mean it wasn't significant.
Cowdy Glass (Pauline Solven) and Lindean Mill (David Kaplan and Annica Sandstrom) spring to mind, among others as producing some outstanding work. However, the entire output of the whole lifespan of those studios is significantly less than what the Arc group produces per hour!
Annette Meech also designed a range of tableware (wine glasses) for Cowdy.
If you are trying to establish who the important designers are, I would advise against using criteria that include either scale of production or method of production and try to judge purely on an aesthetic basis.
Frank:
I think Adam makes important points (for new members: Adam is a glass artist/designer/gallery of international repute.) and I think amply illustrates that this a subject of incredible depth.
The collective reactions to Stephen's/Nazeing Museum original requests shows that glass collectors, researchers and makers have a lot to say on the subject. But to address the original question it is possibly unhelpful and clearly it will not be possible to just make a list of the 'designers' we know about. I would suggest that a new thread be created to try and explore the subject in greater depth to try and get a better picture of 20th century glass design with a focus on British Glass. (Wider might be asking too much?). Perhaps this could lead to a list of people and what their impact was.
sph@ngw:
Great idea Frank, I second that!
Stephen
johnphilip:
I thought Keith Murray was a Kiwi,have i got it wrong,
Cathy B:
Keith Murray was definitely a Kiwi, but he did all of his work in the UK. He's too important to omit, I think.
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