- Title:
- Pair of 500 series kitchen taps
- Object name(s):
- plumbing services; tap
- Brief description:
- A pair of 500 series kitchen taps designed by Martyn Rowlands for IMI Opella Ltd in the 1960s. The 500 series were the first all plastic taps and won a Design Award in 1966. They are made of white injection moulded polyacetal and have a translucent smoked blue acrylic top.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- construction and building services
- Colour:
- white
- Colour:
- blue
- Dimension:
- height 260 mm
- Inscription content:
- B.S. 5413 IMI
- Material:
- plastic
- Material:
- polyacetal
- Material:
- PMMA
- Material:
- polymethyl methacrylate
- Material:
- acrylic
- Object name:
- plumbing services; tap
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 003369.1
- Object production date:
- 1967
- Object production organisation:
- IMI Opella
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Rowlands, Martyn
- Person's association:
- Designer
- Technique:
- injection moulded
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/748f50db-1159-3086-9fa7-6efbfa42c22d
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/748f50db-1159-3086-9fa7-6efbfa42c22d, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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