Carleton xDX Collection
Frying Pan
Wear-Ever Aluminum 'Mayfair' Model 1860 10-Inch Frying Pan
Related Entites
Identifier
2019.CU.DX.00231
Former Accession Number
N/A
Date
circa 1955 (creation), circa 1955 (creation)
Date Source
DX Filemaker Carleton Transfer List, Canadian Museum of History - related object (manufactured by Aluminum Goods Ltd, not Supreme Aluminum)
Date Href
https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1837293
Material/Technique
spun aluminum and phenolic.
Measurement
6cm (height)
pan
,
26.5cm (diameter)
pan
,
41.5cm (length)
pan (with handle)
,
11cm (height)
pan (with lid)
Physical Description
Blue aluminum lid with knob and black plastic handle with D-ring on end of handle.
Number of Components
2
Component Part Name
pan, lid
Brand Name
Wear-Ever Aluminum
Model ID
1860
Pattern
Mayfair
AAT Culture
Canadian
Style or Period
Post-1945
Work Type AAT
frying pans (cookware)
Description
"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]
Description Source
DX Filemaker, DX Collection Registration Records PDF
Provenance
By transfer from Design Exchange
External Linls
https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1837293