Donald Colflesh

Donald Colflesh studied for two years at the Cleveland Institute of Art. There, he worked under the influential silversmith Frederick A. Miller (1913–2000). He continued his training in industrial design at Pratt University, and spent the summer of his first year attending the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1956, the year after he graduated from Pratt, the Gorham Manufacturing Company hired Colflesh to design hollowware. The designer left Gorham in 1963. He joined Walter Dorwin Teague Associates and stayed with the firm until 1969. Afterwards, he worked for several other companies before opening his own firm, Donald Colflesh Design.