WHY I COLLECT Collecting
There's something unmistakably 1970s about Vivienne Brennan's Carlton Ware money boxes – the psychedelic bright colours, the bold graphic design. They're incredibly confident and ‘flower power’. I didn't own one when I was a child, but I do feel quite nostalgic about them.
The very first I boughtI didn't really like Carlton Ware. In the 1990s I used to help my dad with his stall at antiques fairs, and he was selling a lot of the 1930s Carlton Ware – lettuce leaf plates and flowery dishes. But they're not my kind of thing at all – too pretty, too chintzy.