"Mexican Bauhaus Can Opener"
Designer Peter Shire American
Not on view
The title of this teapot is an indication of Shire’s debt to the work of the Bauhaus designers a half century earlier. The teapot also draws on the angular, futuristic vernacular architecture of midcentury Los Angeles, where Shire was born and raised. He views his work as a challenge to the rigidity of the modernist vocabulary and seeks to create a visual dialogue between forms and surfaces, technology and aesthetics.
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