DONALD COLFLESH SILVERPLATE MARTINI PITCHER FOR GORHAM

Modern "drinks" pitcher of silverplate and plastic, with a tall, cylindrical body, having a narrow band around the base and a slightly pulled triangular spout at the lip. A metal strap across the interior of the spout catches ice; the opposing handle of black plastic—in the form of a number "7," with an upturned, heart-shaped terminal at the top end—attaches to the body with short cylindrical struts. Sexy. DONALD COLFLESH (1932–2021) was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1932, the second of three children. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, before transferring to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he received a BFA in Industrial Design in the spring of 1955. That same year Colflesh was hired by the Gorham Manufacturing Company of Providence, R.I., then the country’s leading maker and retailer of fashionable silver. Colflesh was recruited to bring a "contemporary dimension" to the firm's traditional products. His most popular and successful contribution was the Circa ’70