Cor Unum

Cor Unum (= 1 heart) is a ceramic social/sheltered workshop (government support) with (logical) higher productioncosts, distinguished itself with colour and shape/model by focussing on the more art-wise upperclass of the population, ceramic profit making company. Unica/single pieces & serial production of kitchenware items. Mark/backstamp Cor Unum Contemporary Ceramics or CU.

Till 1959 Cor Unum made black plates and vases with yellow/white (lines) decoration. "Humanpots" named after Rademakers anthroposophic ideas, the 12 (stomach, foot, etc.) individualities. After 1959 more efficient management by Zweitse Landsheer, poured clay in hand turned moulds. Till 1975 (Cor Unum was the only one) semi-industrial daily use pottery, like dinner-sets. Mat glazed (looks more handicraft) pottery in natural colours of the sixties. Black baking manganese clay with mat glazes, integration of clay/pottery and color.

The ceramic Hangbulb (Hangbol/Sfeerbol) was a hit in 1967 in the florist shops, living plants as decorum, honoured with the Certificaat Gulden Vorm. Ceramic arrangements with geometrical linking cubic, sphere or cylinder shapes. Design items, Cor Unum Specials, made by non-resident designers. Technically unfeasible Grafico collection, with trembling decoration, high quality and beauty.

At the end of the eighties Artline collection, stoneware in yellow, cream and green designed by Van der Meijden, like star-plate, diamond-vase, the triangle, etc. Luxurious (product measurement) business gifts, at its top in the nineties, construction ceramics, application of wood and metals, for example at candlesticks. Square/circular-items & anthracite grey objects, etc. determined the end of the eighties. Stylized tree as factory mark.

Zweitse Landsheer, J.-B. Reeser, G. Bakker, N. van der Velden, G. Lap, D. van der Meijden, T. Potmeer, N. Zwartjes, B. Ninaber, B. Premsela, H. Rademaker