Brownie Points and Bragging Rights to the first person who can make the connection between the recent orgy of discussion about crockery and this building.
In the meantime, I'll post some token cock for you.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
WTF??
I've been waiting for someone to complain about the absence of cock, and I was going to keep banging on about tableware until then. But I'm now boring myself. So instead, here's a photograph of the former German Embassy in St Petersburg.
Brownie Points and Bragging Rights to the first person who can make the connection between the recent orgy of discussion about crockery and this building.
In the meantime, I'll post some token cock for you.
Brownie Points and Bragging Rights to the first person who can make the connection between the recent orgy of discussion about crockery and this building.
In the meantime, I'll post some token cock for you.
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WWI
Stripes.
Not even close. You're both absolutely freezing.
Is it something to do with Peter Behrens and the packaging of Cornishware in the 20's?
Well done, Michael, you're almost there -- and it was a fantastically good leap.
The key was indeed Peter Behrens, the architect of the Embassy building (and later discredited for getting a tad too close to the Nazis); one of his brilliant pupils was Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, one of whose most famous designs was ... TAC porcelain tableware for Rosenthal.
I'll post a couple of images just above this post.
The TAC drinking ware (teapot, cups, etc) is too mannered and fussy for my taste. But the flatware -- it's absolutely exquisite. Simple but striking geometric shapes in the most delightful bone china. Thin but strong. Beautiful to use. And it's the tableware of choice in LeDuc's mansion-ette.
But I've stopped banging on about kitchen stuff now. Back to the cock.
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