Branchell Melmac Cups, Saucers and Tumblers - LaMoyne

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For auction today is a wonderful set of Melamine/Melmac cups, saucers and juice glasses / tumblers made by the Branchell Company of St. Louis, MO. HISTORY: In the mid 1940s, melamine was a product that was still in its infancy and generally not familiar to the buying public. Kaye LaMoyne, a freelance industrial designer living in St. Louis, was hired by The Branchell Company. He was one of many designers hired by dinnerware manufacturers to mold this new material. Branchell was the only company for which Kaye LaMoyne worked. Very few designers were ever able to master the "mottled" look that LaMoyne perfected for his Color-Flyte and Royale dinnerware lines. Kaye LaMoyne was born in Topeka, Kansas, on July 23, 1918. He attended an art school in Chicago in the mid 1930s, studying design and color, concentrating his studies as a colorist. He started his industrial design career as a glassware designer for the Dunbar Glass Company of West Virginia, and after three years relocated to St. Louis in the 1940s. He worked as a freelance designer , keeping an office in the same building that housed his father's business, Display Products Company. When not under contract designing dinnerware for the Branchell Company, LaMoyne helped his father design and manufacture store fixtures and displays for department stores across the country. Throughout read more

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