12th November 2010
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~ Design & Technology ~
Designers and Designing
Designers and Designing
Furniture and ceramic designs feature as strongly in Graves’ portfolio and ideas as this kettle design from 1980.
The kettle design comes from a period when ‘architectural’ expensive-looking products were all the rage. The most distinctive element of the design was the whistling bird at the end of the spout but it was a particular functional kettle in having a large and heat retentive base-plate. Graves’ fee of $75,000 was high for the time but the kettle went on to sell more than 1,600,000 units and is still available today. - - a good level of sales when the earliest ‘whistling’ kettles were designed in 1922.
Graves has also designed many significant architectural structures and two of the most fun creations might be
The kettle design comes from a period when ‘architectural’ expensive-
