Antonio Salvador Orodea Tall Cylindrical Vessel

About the Item

Tall and narrow quasi-natualistic cylindrical vessel with incised stippled patterning by Madrid ceramic artist Antonio Salvador Orodea, principal of the ASO factory. Part of a collection associated with the 1964-1965 Wold’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, for which Orodea provided concentric ring risers that complemented Javiar Carvajal’s interior architecture. The present textured vessel relates to work by ceramists such as Tue Poulsen; other vessels conjure La Borne potters such as Elisabeth Julia (see additional listings). Orodea’s dialogue with his European contemporaries was based on direct experience: after beginning his education in Madrid, he spent time studying ceramics arts in the German ceramic center of Selb, then in France and Belgium. When Orodea said, in a 1973 newspaper interview, “my intent is that, in my works, artistic inspiration, artisan experience, and the conception of industrial design should be integrated” he was expressing a program for his factory similar to that of the renowned Italian design firm Danese. This innovative program continued beyond the 1964-1965 World’s Fair with Evolution 66, a Spanish “Good Design” exhibition in Madrid in 1966, with murals for the Algerian Pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan, and with a gold medal at the International Handicraft Fair in Munich in 1971. These and other efforts propelled Orodea beyond his local market onto a national and international stage. Provenance: from the collection of a party responsible for fabricating the displays for the Spanish Pavilion in 1964. Incised marks underneath an paper label underneath. For more on this story, see the attached article I wrote for Interior Design HOMES, Fall 2018.

Creator:

Antonio Salvador Orodea (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Diameter: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Stoneware

Place of Origin:

Spain

Period:

1960-1969