Maigonis Daga
Maigonis (Mike) Daga (1923-2001) was born in Latvia, and immigrated to Australia in 1948 as a refugee, where he attended the Adelaide School of Art studying sculpture. Often spelt Magonis by Americans.
Sep 18
Sep 15
Hornsea “Springtime”
Hornsea Springtime
This striking and now very collectable design is by John Clappison 1964-1965 for Hornsea.
It’s fresh, vibrant, cheerful design I think captures the optimism of the era, and is so much of its time. It has become hard to get hold of these days, and hence relatively expensive if you do come across it.
It was a tableware range decorated with either dark green or orange flowers with pale blue leaves, impressed into a white ground.
The range consisted of canisters, cruets, preserve pots, butter dishes, jugs and coffee mugs as well as other items of tableware.
Some of the items had plastic lids, like the canister in the first image, and others were all ceramic. The lids were either aqua blue or yellow.
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Hornsea Springtime
Sep 13
Hornsea Muramic
I was reminded of this fantastic retro design recently when I found some interesting variations of the design on Etsy.
The full name of the design is Hornsea Lancaster Vitramic, “Muramic” .
It was made at the Hornsea Lancaster site 1977-1980, where the the award wining Contrast design amongst others was also made.
There are a number of different designs within the “Muramic” series, but the most commonly seen items are variations of the round shallow dish.
Other products included some fantastic wall plaques like the one pictured below, and even jewellery (very hard to find now)
