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Zealanders were not yet ready to embrace the more advanced forms of Modernism
that Carpay’s work represented. An additional factor was the protection of the
Australian pottery industry by tariffs and quantitative controls on imports which
existed for much of the 1950s. At the same time New Zealand’s restrictions were
being lifted. Carpay was reluctantly dismissed in 1956 because of the poor sales.
Frank Carpay (1917 – 1985) was a designer of decorative pottery who employed
Modernist designs. Photo: Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins.
Plate, Frank Carpay. Abstract decoration such as this met
resistance in New Zealand. Photo: Studio La Gonda.
Photographers, Haruhiko Sameshima and Mark Adams.
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