Frank Carpay was a New Zealand designer.

He was born in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 and was trained at the Hertogenbosch Technical School in Holland.

After the Second World War he was made design director (1946–1950) at Het Edele Ambacht, a small manufactory of ceramics, glass, furniture, and metalwork.

After leaving the company in 1950 he travelled to the south of France where he met Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 and worked at the Madoura Pottery in Valauris, France in 1950.