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MARCH 2018 • Volume 31 No. 7 www.antiqueshoppefl.com

Midcentury Midwinter

By: Amy Gale

Postwar England was bleak. Rationing was in force, Their fluid, rimless, and monochrome designs were
towns were in rubble, and the weather was, remarkably, familiar to the English ceramics industry, but it was
worse than ever. Midwinter Pottery wanted to make vital to see their work in situ. While Zeisel and Wright
a break with the past. The Staffordshire firm had a lived in New York City, it was out west that the youthful
reputation for turning out Old English wares. But cozy informality associated with their wares flourished.
rural scenes and floral sprays were irredeemably out of The milieu that Roy Midwinter wanted to observe
date at home and abroad. “I will shoot the next man was the intended audience for the Guide to Easier
who comes all the way over from Stoke to show me Living that Wright and his wife Mary published in
more English roses,” said the buyer for one Canadian 1951. “We are making a new etiquette,” proclaimed the
department store. authors.
So the firm sent the top sales director, Roy Midwinter, Continued on Page 2
to the west coast of America to see the work of Modern
American designers, like Eva Zeisel and Russel Wright. ←One of the most popular Midwinter patterns: Hugh
Casson’s Cannes (Christie’s, London, May 11, 2005, lot 102)

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