Designer: Stanley Tigerman (1930 – 2019) and Margaret McCurry (b. 1942)

Item: Tigerpause Dinner Plate

Manufactured by: Swid Powell

Country of origin: Japan

Year made: 1984

Materials: Glazed stoneware

Dimensions: 12” in diameter

Condition: Very good.  The plate appears excellent and is unused, but has a few small scratches from storage.

Description: Here is an example of the extremely hard to find Tigerpause charger plate by Tigerman and McCurry.  This model is sometimes incorrectly referred to as “Tiger Paws”, but as you can see from the markings on the back, it is actually a play on words named Tigerpause. 

Although this design went into production for public sale, it was not a popular item when introduced, so very few were made and it was quickly discontinued. This model is so scarcely found that it is not even the Yale University Art Gallery collection which holds the Swid Powell archives donated by Nan Swid.  But examples can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, donated by Tigerman and McCurry, and in Blanton Art Museum, University of Texas.

Provenance: Marc Hacker, Vice President for Design and Development at Swid Powell.  Hacker is an architect who studied with Michael Graves at Princeton University.  Upon graduating he moved to New York City and got a position working for architect Richard Meier.  As a result of his work for Meier, Hacker was hired by Swid Powell, because they needed a formally trained architect to work with their stable of architects and designers to achieve the final objects produced for sale.  Hamel20, LLC is honored to represent the Hacker collection of Swid Powell objects, which includes prototypes and designs that were never produced for sale.