A Whitefriars Indigo Blue 9669 Bamboo pattern slab vase designed by Geoffrey Baxter in 1969. This particular vase is in the rare 1965 Indigo colourway which is one of the sought after colours by avid Whitefriars collectors. The vase is so named because it has strips of what look like bamboo stems vertically abutted across the front face, with the sides and verso in plain glass. This vase is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or any detectable scratches. Standing 8 inches tall by 4 inches wide and 2½ inches deep, the base has the ground and polished pontil which you expect to see on this pattern of vase. A stunning and iconic piece from the 'swinging sixties' that will fit into todays modern and minimalist decor with ease.
Baxter revolutionised the way glass was manufactured at the Whitefriars works in London, using bits of bark, nails, wire and odd bits of metal found around the site to create the moulds into which the glass was blown. No two pieces are exactly the same, and many have bubbles, flow lines, tooling marks and other 'imperfections' which would previously have been frowned on, but as far as Baxter was concerned, it was all part of the 'art'.
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