Espresso, exoticism and earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952 - 1960

Partington, Matthew

Abstract

This book chapter charts the birth of coffee bars in Britain and explores the design influences upon them. The principle focus is the work of three artist potters who made ceramics for a number of the coffee bars and whose work represented a unique meeting of art, design
and commerce. Drawing on oral history interviews with the artists and previously unpublished photographs, Partington discusses how those who worked on the coffee bar interiors operated: how the commissions came about, how the overall design schemes worked and what the finished interiors were meant to do.

• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jan 15, 2013
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 90-99
• Book Title: Interpreting Ceramics
• ISBN: 9780956646255
• Keywords: ceramics, 1950s, coffee-bars, Picasso
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/934484
• Publisher URL: http://www.wunderkammerpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60:1-interpreting-ceramics-selected-essays&catid=2:catalogue
• Contract Date: Nov 15, 2016