Donald Colflesh
In 1956, Gorham Manufacturing Company, the country’s leading maker and retailer of fashionable silver recruited Donald Colflesh to bring a contemporary dimension to its traditional products. Colflesh’s most popular and successful design for the firm was the circa 1970 series, in which he brilliantly captured America’s ambition to go to the moon. In this coffee service, the intersecting angles epitomize the era of space-age design, and the curving upright thrust of the handles and spouts conveys the aerodynamics of the jet age. Gorham reinforced the coffee service’s space-age associations in accompanying pamphlets, noting its feeling of vertical motion, the upward look to space. The company’s name for the line, circa 1970, also confidently alludes to the future and its possibilities. The sleek contours and elongated ebony finials and handles, however, were exceptional for mid-century hollowware, and recall similar embellishments on early 20th century Scandinavian silver.
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Donald Colflesh
Onyx, Stone, Metal
Early 20th Century American Victorian Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
20th Century American Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Donald Colflesh
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Chinoiserie Donald Colflesh
Fabric
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
1910s American Vintage Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
20th Century Italian Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
1970s American Modern Vintage Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
20th Century Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Donald Colflesh
Silver Plate
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Donald Colflesh
Sterling Silver