Portmeirion Pottery
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Susan Williams-Ellis (daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis) and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, purchased a small pottery decorating company in Stoke-on-Trent called A. E. Gray Ltd in 1960. Susan had been working with A.E.Gray’s for some years commissioning designs to sell at the Ship Shop gift shop in Portmeirion Village, North Wales and the Portmeirion Antiques Shop in Pont Street, Knightsbridge, London (later Portmeirion Pottery's first HQ).
Initially Susan produced items under the mark "Gray's Pottery Portmeirionware" but in 1961 changed the name to "Portmeirion Pottery" when they amalgamated Gray's Pottery with pottery makers Kirkham's Pottery, which they bought in that year. Gray's factory was closed and the remaining workforce moved to the Kirkham's Site on London Road, Stoke.
Susan produced an incredible range of revolutionary designs in the 1960's, such as "Totem" (1962), "Magic City" (1966) and "Magic Garden" (1970), but the company is better known for "Botanic Garden" (from 1972) which has evolved over the decades and continues to be their best selling design.
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- Jenkins, Stephen, 2000. Portmeirion Pottery. Richard Dennis. ISBN 0903685787
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