KPM Berlin is using today's International Women's Day as an opportunity to shine a spotlight on some of the remarkable women at the manufactory...
Female Icons - Creative Women at KPM Berlin
FEMALE ICONS
Female power par excellence
Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin currently employs 212 people, including 128 women. This means that women make up 60% of the workforce.
Woman at the top
Martina Hacker is the managing director of the “ KPM Berlin.” She is passionately committed to carrying this time-honored craft and cultural heritage into the future. The well-being of her staff is particularly important to her, because she knows that without them, it simply wouldn’t be possible.
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 aesthetic captivates design connoisseurs around the world, is modeled after the perfect circle. The so-called “Coupeteller,” whose surface flows uninterrupted all the way to the rim, made porcelain history. Even today, the collection—which won the Grand Prix at the Paris World’s Fair six years after its creation and is now on display at MoMA in New York—is still handcrafted and hand-painted at the “ KPM Berlin .”
The URBINO collection
URBINO Dessert plate, large
65,00€
URBINO Soup Plates
85,00€
URBINO Dessert bowl
65,00€
URBINO breakfast cup
185,00€
Artist with experience
Gabriele Stippa began her training in painting at the " 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 ” in 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.
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