1936 – 1940; 1949 – 1954
Kurt Ekholm’s functionalist dinner service, AR, was part of a tableware trend with simplified shapes and patterns. Production of AR with the Sinivalko (Blue White) pattern began in 1936. Kurt Ekholm’s solution to functionalist tableware was low-key. Even so, AR’s Sinivalko practically became a textbook example of functionalism. The FF plates (3 flat and 1 deep) and DD oval oven platters (2) already in production were included in the AR service. New items designed by Ekholm were a bowl, a sauce boat, a salad bowl and a jug. Olga Osol designed a tureen with a lid.
AR tableware was made from ordinary white faience. The shapes of the dishes derive from a half sphere and the decorations run along the graduated rims. The most well known decoration is Sinivalko, a light blue engobe, i.e. body stain line. The AR service designed for six people can be perfectly stacked, which greatly facilitates storage. Corrugated cardboard packaging was also especially designed for the service so that it could safely and easily be transported to and from the holiday cottage, for example. What was also very important was that parts of the service could be bought separately according to need.

The AR range came into production in 1936. Production of the Sinivalko pattern was discontinued in 1940 and replaced with Olga Osol’s R tableware, which came into production in 1941 and to which the Sinivalko pattern was transferred in 1953. The Sinivalko stripe was also used on staple products such as different kinds of bowls, until the AR Sinivalko appears in 1949-54 catalogues once again. The colour range of R tableware grew with the addition of a pink and a yellow stripe pattern.