In the 1960s, the Soviet consumer goods industry was still struggling to meet the high demand for cheap colorless glass kitchenware using new shapes and artistic concepts. Glass factories desperately needed professional artists. The Dyatkovo Crystal Factory reached out to the School of Applied Art at the Moscow Branch of the Soviet Art Foundation. The school’s artists demonstrated a new style of cooperation between an industrial enterprise and an artist determined by the enterprise’s technologies and product range. The artists who put their ideas into practice at the Dyatkovo Factory included Ye. Batanova, A. Stepanova, V. Filimonova, N. Ganf, Ye. Zhigalkina, G. Antonova, and S. Beskinskaya. They designed prototypes for updating the factory’s mass market and limited-edition product lines: services, vases, tableware made of colored and colorless glass and decorated using enamel and silicate paints, engraving, and diamond-shaped cutting.
Svetlana Ryazanova was an experienced artist of the Moscow School of Applied Art who had a great knowledge of the production process and created convenient, practical, and perfectly stylish products. Ryazanova graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Design in 1955. She studied under such artists as B.A. Smirnov, Ye.D. Popova, and I.I. Gordeyevsky. Her graduation project was “The ‘Stone Flower’ Stained Glass”. In her work, she often used unique designer molds for blowing glass products. In 1980, she was awarded the title of the Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Crystal Museum houses around twenty works by Svetlana Ryazanova which were created using various techniques.
The “Rooster” water decanter belongs to a water set consisting of two decanters and glasses. The decanter is made of colorless glass and decorated using a painted image dominated by bright and clear colors. With the help of geometric and floral patterns and plot-driven images, the elements of the set are combined into a cohesive composition. The set is a vivid example of the 1960s minimalist style when artists were supposed to design simple and functional products.
Svetlana Ryazanova was an experienced artist of the Moscow School of Applied Art who had a great knowledge of the production process and created convenient, practical, and perfectly stylish products. Ryazanova graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Design in 1955. She studied under such artists as B.A. Smirnov, Ye.D. Popova, and I.I. Gordeyevsky. Her graduation project was “The ‘Stone Flower’ Stained Glass”. In her work, she often used unique designer molds for blowing glass products. In 1980, she was awarded the title of the Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Crystal Museum houses around twenty works by Svetlana Ryazanova which were created using various techniques.
The “Rooster” water decanter belongs to a water set consisting of two decanters and glasses. The decanter is made of colorless glass and decorated using a painted image dominated by bright and clear colors. With the help of geometric and floral patterns and plot-driven images, the elements of the set are combined into a cohesive composition. The set is a vivid example of the 1960s minimalist style when artists were supposed to design simple and functional products.
