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Who are the important British Domestic Glass designers of the 20th century?
Bernard C:
--- Quote from: aa ---... 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.
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How? You will get a different view from everyone. Ideally importance should be based on something that can be evaluated, albeit very roughly, like success in monetary terms. And I think there is a good case for including influential innovative designs and techniques as well, whether or not they were financially successful in their original form, as long as eventually they led to successful designs.
On a minor point, I wish I could see some distinction between the 1930s emergence of signed designer goods as a marketing strategy and what is being discussed here, important designers. There is some overlap, but they are not the same.
Bernard C. 8)
aa:
Bernard
Here is a good example: http://www.bernard.cavalot.btinternet.co.uk/dj7cp2_view.jpg
Super jam pot. Designer unknown. Quantity produced unknown. Quote from you: "I think this little pot was probably a trade sample from a projected range that was subsequently rejected. Hence its rarity - I have not found anyone who has ever seen anything like it before."
Quite possibly should be in a museum. It doesn't matter how many were produced or how it was produced.
Many great designs and designers are/were not financially successful and often it can be difficult to find examples remaining.
johnphilip:
I am happy to include Keith Murray as i have three of his decanters all with glasses including one very early one.i also have a Paul Nash decanter maybe we should include him.
Bernard C:
Nice try, Adam, but you couldn't have chosen a worse example for this topic, as it's Fostoria's American pattern, albeit made by Davidson, probably from a Fostoria mould loaned to Davidson for evaluation purposes. Nevertheless you made me laugh — important as this topic was getting much too serious.
Bernard C. :love:
Frank:
Moderators can you perhaps execute this suggestion, the original thread could retain a list of names, mentioned so far and the rest of the posts split into a new thread stickied to the top. Give it 6 months then start others on other countries... :)
--- Quote from: Frank on September 26, 2007, 10:26:53 PM ---... 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.
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--- Quote from: sph@ngw on September 27, 2007, 03:41:59 PM ---Great idea Frank, I second that!
Stephen
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