7th Mar, 2024 10:00
Fine & Decorative Arts
169
Jean Picquot after John Gordon Rideout, a Picquot Ware aluminium alloy K3 kettle, designed 1938, domed form with sycamore handle and finial, 23cm diameter
Note: American industrial designer John G Rideout was employed by Wagner Manufacturing company in Ohio, USA, to design a range of new homewares using its patented aluminium alloy Magnalite. The kettle he designed in 1936, examples of which are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum, became popular and the design was adopted and adapted, with the development of a removable lid, by the Scottish company Burrage and Boyd in 1938, eventually releasing it to the public after the Second World War, in 1946.
Sold for £70
Jean Picquot after John Gordon Rideout, a Picquot Ware aluminium alloy K3 kettle, designed 1938, domed form with sycamore handle and finial, 23cm diameter
Note: American industrial designer John G Rideout was employed by Wagner Manufacturing company in Ohio, USA, to design a range of new homewares using its patented aluminium alloy Magnalite. The kettle he designed in 1936, examples of which are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum, became popular and the design was adopted and adapted, with the development of a removable lid, by the Scottish company Burrage and Boyd in 1938, eventually releasing it to the public after the Second World War, in 1946.
Auction: Fine & Decorative Arts, 7th Mar, 2024
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