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Portmeirion pottery evolved from a souvenir shop in North Wales into a twenty-first-century global business, thanks to the flair and vision of Susan Williams-Ellis.

She captured the aspirations of households all over the world, transforming their kitchens and dining rooms from the 1960s onwards by cleverly blending the contemporary and the traditional. Her 'Botanic Garden' pattern, introduced in 1972, combined antique flower prints with contemporary shapes, and having been in production for the last forty years, it is the firm's most successful creation.

The company is currently moving forwards with a new generation of designers; it has a foothold in over fifty countries and has even acquired the Spode and Royal Worcester design portfolios.

Will Farmer and Rob Higgins here tell the story of Portmeirion and illustrate dozens of Williams-Ellis's collectable design classics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Portmeirion Village and Gray's Pottery
Portmeirion Pottery 1960–70
Botanic Garden
Portmeirion Pottery 1970–90
Expansion and Globalization Since 1990
Further Reading
Places to Visit
Index

Product details

Published Jul 20 2012
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 64
ISBN 9781782001126
Imprint Shire Publications
Illustrations 10 b/w; 70 col
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Will Farmer

Will Farmer studied at the Birmingham School of Je…

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Rob Higgins

Rob Higgins was brought up in Stoke on Trent, surr…

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