Jens Quistgaard Flamestone Coffee Pot

This is an extremely hard to find, iconic, coffee pot designed by Jens Quistgaard for the Dansk Flamestone line. The unique, single, side handle gives this coffee pot its stand-out look. Smooth, matte brown, finish on the exterior with a white, enamel, finish interior. This is mid century, Danish modern design at its best.

The coffee pot is marked on the bottom with the early "Four Ducks" Dansk Designs Denmark logo and the initials IHQ for Jens Harald Quistgaard.

Not trained as a designer, but as a sculpture, Quistgaard used his mastery of form to turn functional items into "voorwerpen van kunst" (objects of art). Quistgaard's designs for Dansk helped to bring sophisticated European design into the average home.

You would think that the side handle, as nontraditional as it is, would be awkward, but it is surprisingly comfortable to pour.

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Red Wing "Party Ware" Designed by Charles Murphy

"Party Ware" from Red Wing

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Red Wing "Party Ware" Plate & Bowl

Hard to find, Charles Murphy designed "Party Ware" line plate and bowl from Red Wing. Mid Century ceramic serving plate and bowl with a fabulous free-form shape. The "Party Ware" line included different fruit motifs including grapes (this pattern), apples, cherries, and pears. Back is glazed in a deep, metallic brown/black.

These pieces are not marked "Red Wing" on the back, so it took some time to figure out just what they were.

Red Wing began producing the "Party Ware" line in the late 1940s.

After some digging around, we found that the Party Ware line consisted of twelve different free-form shapes with four patterns and three back colors. Altogether, that makes a total of 144 possible combinations to collect. Since the pattern had such a variety of shapes, and they didn't stack, you needed a lot of cupboard space to store these. Possibly one of the reasons that this pattern wasn't produced for very long and is hard to find today.

You could spend a lifetime looking for all the different mix-and-match patterns. So, if you're looking for Party Ware pieces, or thinking about starting a collection, here are some things to look for.

The four different patterns consisted of:

• Apples
• Cherries
• Grapes
• Pears

The styles were all numbered from 100 through 111. These items are numbers 101 for the bowl and 104 for the plate.

The back colors are:

• Chartreuse
• Gray
• Metallic Brown

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