Die Kugel (dinner service)

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The stackable dinner service Die Kugel ( La Boule , Sphere ) was designed in 1971 by Helen von Boch (1938–2007) together with the Italian ceramist Federigo Fabbrini (1928–2007) for the porcelain manufacturer Villeroy & Boch . It was initially produced in two colors from 1972; later, limited editions in special colors and artist designs were created.

description

The dinner service for four people made up of 19 individual parts was the first in the Avantgarde series to be launched on the market. The avant-garde series , which was launched on the market at the beginning of the 1970s, was intended to mark a modern alternative to the traditional faience and earthenware services of the Villeroy & Boch company and also to target younger groups of buyers.

The 19-piece stoneware service Die Kugel consists of four flat plates, four deep plates, four compote bowls, a terrine with a lid, a serving platter and a vegetable and salad bowl and can be put together to form a ball with an integrated handle 28 cm in diameter.

The service was initially produced in the colors green-yellow-orange and brown-white-cognac.

Helen von Boch received the IF Product Design Award in 1972 for the product design of the tableware .

In 1998, a limited anniversary edition of the ball appeared in white glazed earthenware with a black decoration by Rosemarie Benedikt . In addition, an indigo-colored service limited to 250 pieces, originally specially made as a trade fair sample, was produced, which is now exhibited in the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art in Luxembourg .

As a counterpart to the dinner service for outdoor use, Villeroy & Boch designed the La Bomba picnic tableware made of melamine , with cutlery added to the tableware and stored in a transport net.

reception

The dinner service is now shown as a design object in various museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York , the Dallas Museum of Art , the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and the Grassi Museum for Applied Art in Leipzig and achieves prices of at international art auctions about 700 euros; limited editions correspondingly many times over.

In 2015, the service was presented in green, yellow and orange in the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne during the special exhibition SYSTEM DESIGN. Over 100 years of chaos shown in everyday life . The tableware service was also shown in 2015 in the special exhibition The creative Bochs - Ten generations of artistic talent in several cities in Germany and Luxembourg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Úrsula Peters, Andrea Legde, Yasmin Doosry, Eberhard Stenczka: Modern times: the collection for the 20th century . Cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Volume 3, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 9783926982612 , p. 239
  2. ↑ Glas-Email-Keramo-Technik, Volume 22, Hamburg 1971, p. 190 and p. 244
  3. ↑ Gabriele Lueg: Design in the 20th Century Catalogs of the Museum for Applied Art, Volume 11, Cologne 1989, p. 79f.
  4. ↑ a b Helen von Boch: Round thing. (No longer available online.) Villeroy & Boch, archived from the original on January 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villeroy-boch.de
  5. ↑ IF Design Award 1972: Eßservice Die Kugel. World Design Guide, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ artnet.de: La Bomba picnic dishes , accessed on January 3, 2016
  7. ↑ Avant-Garde Sphere (La Boule) in the DMA , accessed on January 3, 2015
  8. ↑ Conseil des musées nationaux (ed.): Revue du Louvre: la revue des musées de France , Volume 50, Paris 2000, p. 198
  9. ↑ Eva Maria Hoyer (Ed.): Insights / Views - GRASSI Museum for Applied Art Leipzig: A route through the Arnoldsche Collections , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-89790-457-6 , Inv.No. 2008.8 as
  10. ↑ museenkoeln.de: SYSTEM DESIGN. Over 100 years of chaos in everyday life , accessed on January 3, 2016
  11. ↑ Thomas Köster: Creating order with things. (No longer available online.) WDR 3, archived from the original on January 3, 2016 ; Retrieved January 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr3.de
  12. ↑ Homage to a family of artists. Saarbrücker Zeitung, March 25, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Company exhibits . Letzebuerger Journal, October 26, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 .

literature

  • Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Francine Heisbourg-Sulbout, Thérèse Thomas: Villeroy & Boch, 1748-1985: art et industrie céramique . Ministère de la culture (ed.) Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1985, 209 pages
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