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Design '63 cigarette box - 1963
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Design '63 cigarette box
© Wedgwood Museum
This bone china cigarette box was designed by Robert Minkin as part of Wedgwood's Design '63 range of products. It features the intricate African Lion printed design set against a gilded background.
This bone china cigarette box was designed by Robert Minkin as part of Wedgwood's Design '63 range of products. It features the intricate African Lion printed design set against a gilded background.
- Type of object: Useful ware/smoking set
- Mark: (Portland vase device) WEDGWOOD Bone China MADE IN ENGLAND [Printed in black]
- Year first produced: 1963
- Body: Bone china
- Glaze: Unglazed
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Gilded, transfer-printed
- Accession number: 11760, 11760a
- Dimensions: 129 mm (length), 94 mm (width), 37 mm (height)
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Walter Robert Minkin
Designer
Walter Robert Minkin - Designer
Robert, or Bob, Minkin was born in 1928 and joined Wedgwood as Chief Designer in 1955 after training at the Royal College of Art. Thirteen years later he was appointed Group Designer and moved with his team to the new circular design studio opened in 1968, and in 1979 he became Design Director. A number of distinctive tableware patterns were designed by him during the 1950s, and he also produced designs for basalt. He retired from Wedgwood in September 1989.
Glossary
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Design '63
Design '63
The term Design '63 refers to a plan and exhibition by Wedgwood to modernise the company's image. A design research unit had been commissioned by Wedgwood to standardise the use of typefaces and colours for everything relating to the items appearing within the umbrella term Design '63. January 1963 marked the final culmination of this project, and items included new tableware designs which were to be complemented by ranges of ornamental items, devised by Peter Wall and Robert Minkin.
Designs chosen were those which had most visual appeal, rather than actual sales potential and a Design '63 exhibition was initiated to launch the ranges of ware.
