Portmeirion Pottery
In 1925 the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis began his creation of the romantic Italianate Portmeiron village in North Wales. His daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, inherited her love of design from…
Specifikacia Portmeirion Pottery
In 1925 the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis began his creation of the romantic Italianate Portmeiron village in North Wales. His daughter, Susan Williams-Ellis, inherited her love of design from her family and began her career in pottery in the fifties, designing for Portmeiron's village shop. This led on to a deeper involvement in pottery and design and in 1960 she and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, bought Gray's Pottery, a decorating factory in Stoke-on-Trent. In 1961, they bought Kirkham's Limited, a works equipped for actual pottery manufacture, which allowed Susan to start designing shapes rather than patterns alone. "The introduction of Botanic Garden in 1972 was a stroke of genius. This distinctive pattern is a great British product which, after nearly thirty years, is still bought, used and loved by customers all over the world. Like the earlier Portmeiron pottery, Botanic