ceramic, porcelain
art-deco
pottery
3d printed part
ceramic
porcelain
ceramic
decorative-art
Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (12.07 x 20.96 x 13.34 cm)
Copyright: No Copyright - United States
Eric Slater made this -Tea for Two- service out of ceramic. I am imagining him in his studio, carefully painting and arranging the black, orange and yellow fan-like shapes across each piece, trying to create a set of visual harmony, a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The clean, sharp lines of the decoration on the teacups and teapot have a real exuberance about them. It makes me think of Fernand Léger's fondness for industrial forms and jazzy rhythms. Slater’s shapes are carefully considered, but there’s an energy to the composition, a feeling that the artist is riffing, pushing the shapes and colors around until it feels just right. It's lovely to see how artists are in an ongoing conversation across time, inspiring one another's creativity. What would it feel like to drink a cup of tea from this service? I imagine the tea would taste like happiness and optimism. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
Comments
As modernism took hold English potteries employed artists to keep their wares up-to-date for consumers in the nascent era of "planned obsolescence," when new styles replaced old on an ever-faster basis. The colorful abstraction of Art Deco, introduced to a global audience at the Paris Universal Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925, was embraced in England by designers such as Susie Cooper and Eric Slater; the latter's teapot for a tea service features bold sunburst patterns radiating across the white teapot with a stepped lid and angular handle and spout. The playful but abstract design was of-the-moment but appealing to a middle-class market, especially for morning tea.
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