Word: wirrkala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretch in the Foreign Legion, and is an amateur pilot, skier, cross-country runner and sports-car enthusiast. Realizing that the company's designs were outmoded at war's end. young Philip had new lines styled by Europe's top artists-Finland's Tapio Wirrkala, Germany's Bele Bachem. France's Jean Cocteau. In 1951, when U.S. sales slumped, Rosenthal teamed up with Designer Raymond Loewy to make medium-priced contemporary dinnerware for American tastes. Since then Rosenthal has zoomed from 18th to second place in U.S. sales of imported china...
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