Martini
Martini Cocktail Set
2010 (designed), 2011 (made)
2010 (designed), 2011 (made)
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Miranda Watkins (d. 2020) designed Martini Cocktail Set for the lifestyle magazine Wallpaper and their exhibition ‘Wallpaper Handmade’, held in the Brioni House over three days during the Salon del Mobile trade fair, Milan, April, 2010. Watkins was a multidisciplinary designer who worked with a range of materials including pewter, a metal alloy made primarily of tin. For the cocktail set she worked with the Sheffield pewterers A.R. Wentworth who made the elegant forms by spinning flat discs of pewter on a lathe and polishing them to create the highly reflective surfaces.
Miranda Watkins designed contemporary objects for modern interiors, from intimate domestic settings to large scale public spaces, and ranged from kinetic mobiles, light installations, furniture, tabletop products and jewellery. Martini was Miranda Watkin's second successful collaboration with A.R. Wentworth, following on from the Gleam Pewter Collection of tableware, which won the Eureka Design Award in 2008.
Miranda Watkins designed contemporary objects for modern interiors, from intimate domestic settings to large scale public spaces, and ranged from kinetic mobiles, light installations, furniture, tabletop products and jewellery. Martini was Miranda Watkin's second successful collaboration with A.R. Wentworth, following on from the Gleam Pewter Collection of tableware, which won the Eureka Design Award in 2008.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Martini (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pewter, spun and polished with cork base |
| Brief description | Tray and base, pewter and cork, part of the "Martini" travelling cocktail set, made by A.R. Wentworth (Sheffield) Ltd., Sheffield, 2011, designed by Miranda Watkins, London, 2010. |
| Physical description | Circular shallow tray for cocktail set stabilised by a circular cork base. |
| Production type | Unlimited edition |
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| Credit line | Given by A.R. Wentworth (Sheffield) Ltd. |
| Object history | The retail price for the entire cocktail set is £365.00. |
| Summary | Miranda Watkins (d. 2020) designed Martini Cocktail Set for the lifestyle magazine Wallpaper and their exhibition ‘Wallpaper Handmade’, held in the Brioni House over three days during the Salon del Mobile trade fair, Milan, April, 2010. Watkins was a multidisciplinary designer who worked with a range of materials including pewter, a metal alloy made primarily of tin. For the cocktail set she worked with the Sheffield pewterers A.R. Wentworth who made the elegant forms by spinning flat discs of pewter on a lathe and polishing them to create the highly reflective surfaces. Miranda Watkins designed contemporary objects for modern interiors, from intimate domestic settings to large scale public spaces, and ranged from kinetic mobiles, light installations, furniture, tabletop products and jewellery. Martini was Miranda Watkin's second successful collaboration with A.R. Wentworth, following on from the Gleam Pewter Collection of tableware, which won the Eureka Design Award in 2008. |
| Bibliographic reference | Wallpaper, London, Time Life Entertainment Group, August, 2010, pp. 139, 152-153. ill. ISSN: 1364-4475 |
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| Accession number | M.208:1, 2-2011 |
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| Record created | April 11, 2011 |
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