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The rectangular and white ceramic plates and dishes with aluminum lid and stackable. Norma set by designer Piet Stockmans for Royal Mosa Maastricht 1980. Different porcelain bowls can also be combined on a larger tray. Norma was designed as system porcelain for hospitals where they wanted to give employees a choice with regard to the menu. Piet Stockmans (Belgium, 1940) starts working at Royal Mosa in 1963, where he stayed until 1989. Stockmans takes over the position of modeller in 1967 from Edmond Bellefroid (1893-1971, The Netherlands) who has many award-winning dinner sets by name. Stockmans designs all new models that leave the factory until he also leaves the factory. However, this means that he mainly designs for the large-scale consumer market, as Mosa in particular focuses on hotel porcelain. Stockmans only sporadically designs functional objects for the individual consumer. Examples are the Passe Partout party set and the Fantasy set. Mosa was not a producer to support experiments. Stockmans has remained relatively unknown as a designer due to Royal Mosa's purely market-oriented design ideology. However, his contribution to the development of bulk consumer porcelain is indisputable. Millions of copies of his Sonja series were sold in the 1970s that were produced with different decorative styles.
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