Decorative and Household Utensils in the Product Assortment of Lviv Experimental Ceramic and Sculpture Factory: The Issue of Formation

The aim of the research is to find out the form-making, artistic-constructive and technological features of small-scale production of Ukrainian glass-making enterprises at the end of the twentieth century on the basis of a separate category of products, namely decorative and household utensils. Research methodology. Methods of diachronic and synchronous description of artistic phenomena, method of formal analysis and synthesis, structural-functional and stylistically typological method as well as interview method are used. Scientific novelty. The article is a part of a scientific study that for the first time in the Ukrainian art studies addresses the problems of design of smallscale production of blown glass producers, in particular in the context of the work of one of the most developed enterprises of the country – Lviv experimental ceramic and sculpture factory. Conclusions. The blown glass manufactory LEKSF, which functioned during the period of 1962–2005, became the focal point for the continuation and development of the traditions of the classical Ukrainian blown glass and the base for the work of glass sculptors from the whole Soviet Union. Actually, in 1989 the international symposiums of blown glass in Lviv, which made it into the history of the world studio movement and had a significant impact on the development of glass making