MillCottageRetro: Summer Events: Brighton

We spent a week in Brighton last month and had a busy time shopping in the North Laine vintage area, visiting the beach and walking along the Prom!

On a more cultural level we visited the Royal Pavilion (second time for me) and the Museum which has a gallery devoted to 20th century design in which I managed to take a few pics.

On the central shelf in this picture are three vases designed by Guy Sydenham and Alfred Read for Poole Pottery in 1956/7; a Picasso vase in the shape of a bird (Pot Oiseau)made at Madoura Pottery, Vallauris, France c 1954; a Villeroy & Boche coffee set in the Acapulco pattern c 1970.

This is the same shelf from the other side in which you can see Walter Gropius designed black matte / gloss teapot for Rosenthal, c 1969 on the right, a Poole dish (as before) and an Alphabet coffee pot designed by Marcello Morandini in a shape created by Timo Sarpaneva for Rosenthal c 1976

On this shelf is an amber Totem Portmeirion coffee pot, cup & saucer & sugar bowl; Hornsea Heirloom coffee pot in green and a Midwinter Stonehenge Sun coffee pot and cup & saucer

Here is a selection of glass including a pink handkerchief vase made by Venini c 1955 (Murano, Italy), a blue and yellow striped vase c 1960 (probably the same); a small clear glass vase with coloured bands by Flygsfors c 1961 (Sweden); a large free form vase by Max Verboeket for Maastricht Kristalunie c1964 (Netherlands) and a heavy globular vase designed by Edvin Ohrstrom for Orrefors, c 1950 (Sweden)

This is the back of the previous shelf on the left of which is a Harlequin Jug c 1955, designed by Dino Martens for Aureliano Toso (Murano, Italy); a delicate blue and white striped jug c 1954 by Dino Martens, as before; a blue dish c 1950 designed by Floris Meydam for Leerdam (Netherlands and on the right a vase designed as a leg and foot c 1976 by Bjorn Wekstrom for Nutajarvi (Finland)

In the centre a dish designed by Julian Stair 1990

In the centre a plate designed for Rorstrand of Stockholm, Sweden in the Eden pattern, c 1958

In the furniture section this bison was made for the Au Printemps store, Paris c 1925

The sideboard was designed by Serge Chermayeff and made by Waring and Gillow, UK1928-9

The Long Chair made of bent plywood designed by Marcel Breuer of Germany for Isokon of London, c 1936

The Mae West's Lips sofa designed by Salvador Dali, c 1938 and made by Green & Abbott, London. In the 1960s it was re-interpreted as Marilyn Monroe's lips.

This is the Garden Egg chair, c 1968, designed by Peter Ghyczy, made as a polyester resin shell with channels around the edge to keep the fabric interior dry.

A view of all the chairs in a neat display

The descriptions attached to the photos are taken from the captions written by the Museum.

There was also a gallery displaying costume in which I took a few pics:

This is a Biba Suit (Biba established by Barbara Hulanicki) c1970

A Norman Hartnell coat donated from the collection of Mrs Davies: the Queen Mother had one the same which she wore to the races in the 1960s. Mrs Davies, planning to attend the same event, was contacted by the Hartnell couture house advising her not to wear the same coat!