- Object name(s):
- Spoon
- Brief description:
- Red plastic teaspoon, moulded polypropylene. British Rail (BR) logo moulded into design.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Tableware & cutlery
- Associated concept:
- Transport
- Credit line:
- Given by the designer
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN4686/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 12.1
- Object name:
- Spoon
- Object number:
- C.100-2003
- Object production date:
- 1967
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1967-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1967-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Cosmocord Ltd.
- Organisation's association:
- makers
- Object production organisation:
- British Rail
- Organisation's association:
- commissioned by
- Object production person:
- Rowlands, Martyn
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Red plastic teaspoon, moulded polypropylene. British Rail (BR) logo moulded into design.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MN4686
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Technique:
- Moulded polypropylene
- 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 also designed disposable meal trays, cutlery and tableware for the transport industry - both British European Airways (BEA, 1967) and British Rail.
- 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/5507540c-c3f9-3343-ab93-922cbc802c42
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5507540c-c3f9-3343-ab93-922cbc802c42, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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