Vintage view: Poole Pottery

Kya deLongchamps on the impact Poole Pottery has had on popular interiors.

There are many areas of vintage Poole Pottery, but let’s look at two, one produced in the 1950s and the other first championed in the 1970s. Both reflect huge changes in popular interiors, and that’s what we are looking for in collectables — things that reflect the character of the times.

Poole’s genesis as a potting company in the 1940s was the firm Carter Stabler Adams, a group formed as manufacturer of architectural ceramics some 20 years before. Some of their original tiles can still be seen on the walls of the London Underground. The original company operated from 1873-2006, the factory taking its name from its original home on Poole quayside only in 1963.