Portmeirion Pottery

In 1925 the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis began his creation of the romantic ltalianate Portmeirion village in North Wales. His daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, inherited her love of design from her family and began her career in pottery in the fifties, designing for Portmeirion's village shop. This led on to a deeper involvement in pottery and design and in 1960 she and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, bought Gray's Pottery, a decorating factory in Stoke-on- Trent. In 1961, they bought Kirkham's Limited, a works equipped for actual pottery manufacture, which allowed Susan to start designing shapes rather than patterns alone.Susan's designs during the 1960s were in the forefront of the contemporary style and her coffee sets of that period are already design icons. The introduction of Botanic Garden in 1972 was a stroke of genius. This distinctive pattern is a great British product which, after nearly forty years, is still bought, used and loved by customers all over the world. Like the earlier Portmeirion pottery, Botanic Garden is now firmly in the collector's domain. This book will be a bible for those enthusiasts.

Author: Steven Jenkins & Stephen P McKay
Publisher: Richard Dennis
Extra Details: Hardback 9 x 12 inches tall,116 Pages, lavishly illustrated throughout with colour photos and artworks.