Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyz
Sep 25, 2023, 2:48 AMFrom 1932 to 1976 Air France's logo was the Hippocampe ailé, or winged horse sea monster. (Now of course it is a miserably generic sans serif wordmark.)
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- Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyzSep 25, 2023, 2:48 AM
This logo is known colloquially as the crevette, or shrimp.
- Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyzSep 25, 2023, 2:50 AM
The logo on my glass is clearly the same beast, with the fox-tail thing being a wing, or maybe one hump of its tail. But the design is completely different and where did that come from?
- Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyzSep 25, 2023, 2:55 AM
Jean Picart le Doux designed it in the 1960's, for the china used by first-class passengers on the Concorde.
It was manufactured by Limoges, it remained in use into the 1970's, and you can still find some on Ebay. - Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyzSep 25, 2023, 3:08 AM
Going further down the china rathole, even closer to the design on my tiny glass is this tiny (7cm) dish made by Gien.
Here my search ends, for I have bought one on ebay for $14.05, in the least coveted and therefore cheapest gray color. No date of manufacture is given. - Bathsheba Grossmanbathsheba@mathstodon.xyzSep 25, 2023, 3:25 AM
La crevette may still appear as part of the Air France brand identity, though never the main logo.
And I'll leave this thread with this daring Deco departure, which was also an official version for ten years starting in 2009.
Vive l'hippocampe!
