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Rimac - "maker / retailer"?

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Ivo:
You're right I do not rate him very high. He's nowhere near the league of serious designers such as Muller, Rozendaal, Copier or Meydam.

Jay:
Of course, I'm not disagreeing with you there! ;-)

David E:
Design is very subjective, but should always be judged by, in the main, form and function. In the case of the Lotus and Belle hyacinth vases, for me both boxes can be ticked. Functional design, of course, does not always equate to beauty as they are created for a task, but I have both vases with hyacinths growing and they are extremely good for this purpose. I even think that the Belle vase is a rival for Mr. Tye's own iconic design and that Rimac should not be disregarded as a glass 'retailer' - but that term does not really describe the company properly: just my opinion.

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Wished I hadn't bought the subject of Rimac up now...  ;)

flying free:
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My view is, if the glass was not made at Rimac then they are not a manufacturer.  The glass should be deemed 'retailed by Rimac, designed by Rimac, made by ....' .  It is quite an important distinction I think.  Especially if the glass was made in Czechoslovakia as Patricia mentioned.

Harrach is a major case in point.  Where confusion has been caused as to what to id the glass as (Harrach made for many makers/finishers) and it has then transpired it was made by Harrach (blank), but enamelled/decorated by .... . 
(or even made by Harrach, sold as .....  :o - although I've not yet seen any firm evidence of this as the case, I think I have seen it mooted more than once that Harrach may have made glass retailed as French I believe.  That would not make it French Glass,  just retailed in France made in Bohemia.)

Patricia:
As we are really getting into this, Rimac was the pulled together name of an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Corrie, was running a demand and supply business in household stuff. The man's name was Marinus Machielse, hence Rimac.

Right after WWII he peddled from shop to shop to find out what was needed and by the 1960s he had specialised in necessaties for garden and animals (think here of bowls for dogs, chicken feeders etc). The sticker on their wares showed the crest of the city of Baarn (their home town).
In 1980 son Wilco took over the business, modernised the company which nevertheless went bust in 1981. Not all Wilco's fault. East Germany had completely taken over the market, selling for prices no one could compete with.

In their heyday, crocus pots were one of their best selling articles (30 models available, selling 10.000 pots a year). Hyacinth vases were only a sideline, made in every colour imaginable as they were defenitely an 'end of day' article with what ever glass was left in the pot. Sometimes leftover stock from another factory was completely bought up as well. That's how it is possible to find one and the same hyacinth vase with a Suessmuth sticker (German glass factory selling to the German market) or a Rimac sticker (buying up stock and selling it to the Dutch market). In the Holland hyacinth vase business (sellers and buyers) we all talk about Rimac vases but we all know the story behind it.

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Patricia

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