Vintage Corelle. The dishes your mother had, or her mother, or someone whose kitchen you still dream about on a Tuesday.
Corning Glass Works introduced Corelle in 1970, and it changed the North American kitchen practically overnight. Vitrelle glass, three layers thermally bonded, lightweight and nearly impossible to break, carrying some of the most recognizable patterns of the decade. By the mid-1980s it was estimated to be in one of every four American households. That's not a kitchen staple. That's a cultural fact.
Three patterns define this collection. Spring Blossom, the one collectors still call Crazy Daisy, those graphic olive green flowers that arrived with Corelle in 1970 and ran through the late 1980s, cheerful and completely of their moment. Old Town Blue, designed by artist Cynthia Gerow in 1972, its intricate navy border inspired by centuries of blue-on-white Meissen tradition, the pattern so beloved it was revived decades later. Butterfly Gold, designed by Gregory Mirow in 1970, warm and graphic, that golden motif on white that caught the light on a thousand breakfast tables.
These are not fine bone china. They were never meant to be. They were meant to be used, every day, by real people sitting down together. That's a different kind of history, and it's no less worth keeping.
Browse the Vintage Corelle collection and find the pattern that takes you straight back to someone's kitchen.
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Vintage Corelle pendants: Spring Blossom, Old Town Blue, Butterfly Gold. Handcrafted in Alberta from reclaimed pieces. $44 CAD. Ships across Canada.
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