Petra Cabot
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Petra Cabot was an American designer
and artist
, perhaps best known for the 1950s plaid Skotch Kooler.
Cabot was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, on February 21, 1907. She designed dinnerware for Russel Wright
from 1935-1950.
Cabot was married twice - to Laurence Jordan, a poet, which ended in divorce in 1931 and to Blake Cabot, who died in 1974.
She died in her home in Woodstock, New York, on October 13, 2006.
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, perhaps best known for the 1950s plaid Skotch Kooler.
Cabot was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, on February 21, 1907. She designed dinnerware for Russel Wright
Russel Wright
Russel Wright was an American Industrial designer during the 20th century. Beginning in the late 1920s through the 1960s, Russel Wright created a succession of artistically distinctive and commercially successful items that helped bring modern design to the general public.-Designer:Russel...
from 1935-1950.
Cabot was married twice - to Laurence Jordan, a poet, which ended in divorce in 1931 and to Blake Cabot, who died in 1974.
She died in her home in Woodstock, New York, on October 13, 2006.