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⭐ 7: A tea set

A design masterpiece by Zoran Didek

Zoran Didek (1910–1975), an excellent art teacher and theorist, was also one of the most versatile 20th-century artists in Slovenia. Apart from painting, drawing, illustration and printmaking, he devoted himself to product design. In the early 1950s, when he lectured at the School of Arts and Crafts (later renamed the School of Design), Didek made a series of sketches for ceramic consumer products. A tea set consisting of cups and a teapot based on his sketches was made circa 1960 in the Keramična industrija Liboje crockery factory.
 
 

The tea set consists of three cups with saucers and a teapot, made of glazed earthenware. The teapot and the cups are light brown and the handles shaped like a convex circle are white.

Dated: circa 1960
Material: glazed earthenware
Dimentions: teapot: H 17 cm, W 12.8 cm, D 17.5 cm; cup: H 6.5 cm, DIA 7.8 cm; saucer: DIA 11.8 cm
Source: donated by Smiljana Didek, Ljubljana
Inv. nr.: KZ 1/1005-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
On view: interdisciplinary exhibition Four elements: 1 – WATER, 1st floor of Brežice Castle, on view until 6 December 2016, curated by: Alenka Černelič Krošelj, Vlasta Dejak, Oži Lorber, dr. Ivanka Počkar in Jana Puhar

 
 

For heritage enthusiasts:

Zoran Didek (1910, Ljubljana – 1975, Ljubljana) spent his youth in Sv. Križ (Podbočje), where his mother Ana, née Stritar, was from. After finishing the Krško Civic School, he attended the Realgymnasium in Maribor and then enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb. While studying there, he married a fellow-artist, academy-trained painter Smiljana Ivančić, with whom he had a son, Zoran. After graduating in 1933, he worked as an art teacher at secondary schools and colleges on the island of Krk, in Zagreb and Sarajevo. In 1955, he was awarded a scholarship for further training in Paris. From 1967 to 1974, he was a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He was best known as a painter of caricatured self-portraits, portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He also designed various unique products for the ceramics, glass and goldsmithing industries. In addition to numerous other distinctions and awards, he received the 1975 Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement and an exhibition staged in Krško in 1974.
 
Prof. Zoran Didek in his studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Photo by M. Zdovc.  Zoran Didek, Self-Portrait I, pencil sketch/paper, H 29 cm, W 20.3 cm, Inv. No.: KZ1: 863. 

The many works of art and objects donated to the Posavje Museum Brežice in 1996 and 1997 by Zoran Didek's wife, Smiljana Didek, include a tea set made in the Keramična industrija Liboje crockery factory. The beginnings of the ceramic industry in the village of Liboje in the Lower Savinja Valley go back to 1815, when Ignac Schmidl set up a factory in Nemški dol. A sufficient supply of suitable clay was the reason that until the mid-20th century, the Lower Savinja Valley boasted as many as three crockery factories: in Nemški dol, Kasaze and Gotovlje. A large part of the production was focused on the products that were exported to France, the UK, Germany, Norway, Russia, the United States and Canada. Based on an ownership transformation, the company KILI, Keramična industrija Liboje, was established in 1992.

Tea – the Thing that Brings Together People and Cultures All over the World
With its universal language, tea has been the thing that people and cultures all over the world have been bonding over for more than a thousand years. Tea drinking reached its peak in China and Japan, where over the centuries it has evolved into a proper tea culture. The Chinese swear by the rule that taking time for oneself and tea is a must. Throughout history, teas and infusions have been prepared by other peoples too, however, with different purposes. Some believed that teas ward off demons and evil thoughts and used them a remedy for various diseases, malaise and insomnia.
In the territory of the present-day Slovenia, tea drinking was at its peak in the 1920s, when tea parties were one of the townspeople's most popular forms of social life. In Slovenia, it is customary to invite people over for a cup coffee, although actually tea or something else is often enjoyed instead of coffee. Here, tea is usually enjoyed during the colder part of the year and often forgotten about during the summer. Herbal tea is considered mainly a remedy for various ailments. Come to think of it, did you know that there are over 1,500 different types of teas that have a healing effect?
The Posavje Museum Brežice keeps a recipe for the so-called Ivaček's Tea, prepared by master chef Ivan Ivačič, the first Slovenian celebrity chef and TV star. Ivačič used to forage for tea ingredients near his holiday home in Ravne pri Zdolah, and later also in Radovljica, where he lived. He gifted his tea blend to his friends and acquaintances on special occasions.
 
The recipe for Ivan Ivačič signature tea – Ivaček's Tea. Ivačič usually gathered the ingredients for his tea by himself. He often gave the tea blend, which was packaged in clear packaging, to his friends as a gift. Donated to the Posavje Museum Brežice by Peter Ivačič. 

For more information see: Prepared by: Boštjan Kolar
 
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