Journal – Page 4 – The Makers Guild

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Hjördis Oldfors

Hjördis spent the first few years of her working life as a banker. It was only when she was nearing 30 that she enrolled in the School of Desig...

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Hans Welling

Hans Welling was responsible for some of the most sophisticated output of several of the best post-war German art-pottery manufacturers.

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Guido Gambone

Guido Gambone’s highly sought after pieces fused painting, primitivism, traditional patterning, and mid-century modern aesthetics and would bec...

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Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg

Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg began to seriously perfect the rice porcelain she became know for. She drew inspiration from visiting museums where she...

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Börje Skohg

Oskar Börje Skohg, artist and ceramicist, was born in Mora, Sweden. He studied at Konstfack in Stockholm 1948-49, then at Stockholm Art School ...

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Bjørn Wiinblad

Bjørn Wiinblad (1918–2006), was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics.

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Anna-Lisa Thomson

Anna-Lisa Thomson is perhaps best known for the 1948 series "Paprika" (Peppers), with its slender, tapering vases.

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Upsala-Ekeby

Upsala-Ekeby LTD was established on January 29, 1886 in Uppsala, Sweden. Upsala-Ekeby began with production of bricks and tiles. The raw materi...

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Per and Annelise Linnemann-Schmidt (Palshus)

Palshus Pottery was created by the husband and wife duo Per and Annelise Linnemann-Schmidt in Senglose, Denmark in the late 1940's.

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Valdemar Pedersen for Bing & Grøndahl

Valdemar Pedersen was the designer behind many of the exquisite haresfur and warm variegated glazed pieces of the 1950's-1970's.

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Helge Østerberg

Østerberg primarily used stoneware mixed with chamotte clay to achieve a textural character, underlined by "primitive" etched decorations and d...

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Helmut Friedrich Schäffenacker

Helmut Friedrich Schäffenacker founded his studio Atelier Schäffenacker in 1948 and worked in a great array of materials in addition to ceramic...

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Annemarie Davidson

Annemarie Davidson was a German- American copper enamelist best known for her free form modernist enamels reflecting the California modernist m...