George Sakier

George Sakier, a leading American designer, began designing for Fostoria in 1929, helping to raise its image as a modern manufacturer. He designed most of the company’s Art Deco pieces, like this geometric bowl, available in six colors and three sizes and a matching candleholder. Sakier was interested in trigonometry and perspective, publishing manuals on the subjects and exploring them in his designs, as can be seen by this bowl’s triangular forms and play of dimensionality. This type of simple and accessible modern design encouraged other glass manufacturers to experiment with modern-style wares marketed to the middle class. Sakier continued to send drawings to the glassmaking firm for more than fifty years, even after moving to Paris in the mid-twentieth centry, and was undoubtedly its major design consultant until it closed its doors in 1986.