Fiesta-what?
Launched by the Homer Laughlin China Company at the Pittsburgh China & Glass Show in January 1936, Fiesta dinnerware is ultra-durable, “restaurant quality” and vibrantly glazed. By its second year of production, the company made more than a million Art Deco-style pieces in five original colors: Red, Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Green, and Ivory. Additional colors showed the trends of the times, beginning with pastels in the 1950s, then brighter shades followed by earth tones in the 1960s. At the end of 1972, Fiesta was retired after 37 years of production and became a collector’s item. Thanks to Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan, the brand was resurrected in 1986, using innovative, lead-free ceramic glaze. New Fiesta colors have been introduced (and others retired) every year since.