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KPM Berlin is taking today's International Women's Day as an opportunity to give special women from the manufactory a stage...
Female power par excellence
Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin currently employs 212 people, 128 of whom are women. This means that they make up 60% of the workforce.
Woman at the top
Martina Hacker is Managing Director of KPM Berlin. She passionately pursues the goal of carrying this traditional craft and cultural asset into the future. The well-being of the workforce is particularly important to her, because she knows that it won't work without them.
Creative designer
Trude Petri first joined the manufactory in 1928 and quickly produced various designs for KPM. Groundbreaking and today, 90 years after its creation, a true classic: the URBINO collection inspired by the Bauhaus idea.
90 years of URBINO
The collection, whose simple aesthetics inspire design connoisseurs all over the world, is based on the perfect shape of the circle. The so-called coupe plates, whose surface flows uninterrupted right to the edge, made porcelain history. The collection, which won the Grand Prix at the Paris World Exhibition six years after its production and is now exhibited at the MoMa in New York, is still made and painted by hand at KPM Berlin today.
Artist with experience
Gabriele Stippa began her training in painting at KPM Berlin in 1982. For nearly 40 years, this trained floral painter has been creating impressive depictions of nature on white porcelain canvases every day. Her works of art also include the exclusive, limited-edition KURLAND Heritage cup the “Greyhound” and “Chinoiserie” designs.
KURLAND Heritage Edition
Together with three colleagues, Gabriele Stippa curated up to nine different colors and liquid real gold in three working days to vitalize the elaborate motifs of the Heritage Edition. Using various painting techniques such as pen and brush drawings, they create the artworks from the sketch to the finished unique piece of art that lasts - something Gabriele Stippa particularly likes about her work.
