Conrad Dressler
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Conrad Dressler (22 May 1856 - 3 August 1940) was a sculptor and potter.
He was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. He was influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement. He worked in partnership with Harold Rathbone between 1894 and 1897 at the Della Robbia Pottery, and then moved to Medmenham in Buckinghamshire. The Medmenham Pottery specialised in small architectural tiles which were combined to create large wall panels. The business was financed by Robert William Hudson until 1906 when it closed although the tiles continued to be made in Stoke-on-Trent. Dressler invented the tunnel kiln. Later he lived in Paris and the United States. He died at Saint-Brévin l'Océan, Loire, France.
