- Object name(s):
- Butter dish
- Brief description:
- Transparent turquoise and opaque cream plastic double-walled butter dish with cover.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Food vessels & Tableware
- Associated concept:
- Containers
- Credit line:
- Given by the designer
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN4478/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 6.6
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 14.8
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 9.9
- Object name:
- Butter dish
- Object number:
- C.59:1, 2-2003
- Object production date:
- 1964
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1964-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1964-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Insulex Ltd.
- Organisation's association:
- maker
- Object production person:
- Rowlands, Martyn
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Transparent turquoise and opaque cream plastic double-walled butter dish with cover.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MN4478
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Technique:
- Moulded styrene-based plastic, part opaque, part transparent; the double-walled construction has polyurethane foam filling
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Martyn Rowlands trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Specialising in plastics, he was one of the first trained industrial designers to work with British industry after the Second World War. He was employed first by 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, at a time when the idea of the design consultancy in Britain was still in its infancy. One important commission during this period came from the GPO in 1966 for the popular telephone known as the 'Trimphone', which won a Design Council Award. During the 1960s and 1970s, Rowlands designed plastics for domestic use for various clients including Insulex, the manufacturer of this insulating double-walled butter dish.
- 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/111b90d1-8107-3af1-b166-44a3ab2f8d83
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/111b90d1-8107-3af1-b166-44a3ab2f8d83, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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