- Object name(s):
- Fruit bowl
- Brief description:
- Round red fruit bowl in moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Tableware & cutlery
- Associated concept:
- Containers
- Credit line:
- Given by the designer
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN9613/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 10.2
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 22.9
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 22.9
- Object name:
- Fruit bowl
- Object number:
- C.63-2003
- Object production date:
- ca. 1957
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1952-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1961-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- EKCO
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Rowlands, Martyn
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Round red fruit bowl in moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MN9613
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Technique:
- Moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Martyn Rowlands trained at the Central School in London. He specialised in plastics. He was one of the first trained industrial designers to work with British industry after the Second World War. He worked first for Bakelite Ltd, then set up the design department at Ekco Plastics, where his products won a number of design awards. In 1959 he left Ekco to work as an independent design consultant. This was at a time when the idea of the design consultancy in Britain was still in its infancy. One important commission in 1966 was the popular telephone known as the ‘Trimphone’, which won a Design Council Award. Rowlands's products for Ekco included tableware, nursery products, a baby bath with stand and a watering can. He developed products specifically to suit the qualities of plastic materials. He did this rather than simply carry across traditional forms.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Penny Sparke: "Consultant Design: The History and Practice of the Designer in Industry", Pembridge Press, 1983
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0ee9fb2a-7b0a-35a7-a06a-254e18187a09
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0ee9fb2a-7b0a-35a7-a06a-254e18187a09, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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