Portmeirion Pottery By Steven Jenkins & Stephen P Mckay

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Portmeirion Pottery By Steven Jenkins & Stephen P Mckay

In 1925 the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis began his creation of the romantic Italianate portmeirion village in North Wales. His daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, inherited her love of design from her family and began her career in pottery in the fifties, designing for Portmeirion's village shop. This lad on to a deeper involvemnet in pottery and design and in 1960 she and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, bought Gray's Pottery, a decorating factory in Stoke-on-Trent. In 1961, they bought Kirkham's Limited, a works equipped for actual pottery manufacture, which allowed susan to satrt designing shapes rather than patterns alone.

Susan's designs during the 1960s were in the forefront of the contemporary style and her coffe sets of that period are already design icons.  the introduction of Botanic Garden in 1972 was a stroke of  genius. This distinctive pattern is a great British product which, after nearly thirty years, is still bought, used and loved by customers all over the world. Like the earlier Portmeirion pottery, Botanic Garden is now firmly in the collector's domain. This book will be a bible for those enthusiasts.

A new look Portmeirion pottery is casuing a stir in the world of tableware. Susan's daughters, Angharad Menna and Anwyl, contributed to the Seasons Collection on Susan's Mandarin shape in a new design direction which, it is hoped, will emulate the success of Botanic Garden.

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