Chrome pot with black plastic handle and metal D-ring on end. Blue-coloured aluminum lid, with 2-circular engraved rings, revealing chrome, with black plastic knob affixed via flathead screw.

"Jack Luck was one of the first Canadian industrial designers and was the first president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers. He lectured at the University of Toronto School of Architecture on industrial design in 1958. He participated in the naively propagandistic NFB film “Design for Living” where he promotes the new profession of industrial design. Cutting a romantic figure, he demonstrates that a saucepan is a “machine for cooking”; sketching at his drafting table, the heroic designer pauses only to reflect and smoke a cigarette.

Many North Americans have unknowingly used Jack Luck’s simple functionalist metal designs, including his door pulls and handles, pots and pans, kettles and coffee makers for the Mayfair and Wearever lines.

Jack Sven Luck was born in 1912, in London, England. Soon after coming to Toronto in 1930, he joined Aluminium Goods Limited. He moved to Montreal where..." [truncated in original text, DX Filemaker, DX Collection Registration Records PDF]