Topic: Pyrex Designer? (split from Re: Who are the important British Designers...)

[Pinky]

Sorry to be so dim - I wondered who designed the pyrex bowl with the fattish rim and little bunned feet and the measuring jugs. They're the first things that come to mind when I think of important domestic glass - my grandparents had them, my parents and now my family - I've seen them in heaps of other kitchen cupboards - in some piled in heaps of various sizes. Mixing bowls and measuring jugs important design I'm thinking because earlier on ready-prepared food wasn't nearly as common - hence the vessels featuring very heavily in everyday life - the sort of items you couldn't do without. Are they a 20th century design?

[Frank]

Thre is a special Jobling's article on Pyrex c1958 in the Glass-Study and it gives the impression that the Sales department were largely responsible. Also they( UK) take the credit for thinning down Opalware to become domestic Tableware

Implication is that designs were used from US but adjusted at Jobling as needed for their market.

and this chappie:
Milner Gray, Esq., R.D.I., P.P.S.I.A. Director, Design Research Unit

However there was a PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
E. Orange
and this one possibly...

GEORGE B. RITCHIE, Assistant Designer in his second year with Joblings. Mixed batch of likes: indoor gardening, painting, breeding Siamese cats, whisky, the theatre, the highlands.

And then a PRODUCT DESIGN DEPARTMENT
J. D. Cochrane, Head of Dept
Miss Doreen Watson, secretary and general dogsbody (She could help)

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