Ceramic Visionaries
An artist who reworks kitsch porcelain ornaments into outlandish, dystopian comments on society; a designer transforming ceramic planters into uneasy creations that evoke nightmares from The Day of the Triffids; a street artist collaborating with a bespoke barware company — this is our compendium of the most inspiring creatives working with ceramics today.
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The sublime debut collection from Californian studio PAX Ceramics — a range of bowls, cups, vases, and carafes — sees everyday objects designed to stand the test of time and brighten up your day; inspired by SoCal’s mid-century design movement...
Journal
Natalia Kopytko and Marcin Sipiora founded Diploo Studio in 2010; creating nature-inspired beings of myth and reality, settling on a use of ceramic clay, for now. Inspired by the wild landscapes of Poland, of infinite forests and their...
Opening Soon • New York
Covering Yeezy albums, collaborating with Louis Vuitton, exhibiting as only the third ever contemporary artist at the Palace of Versailles, selling works for millions and millions ... Takashi Murakami is the restless pop culture-obsessed Japanese...
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I'm going to be honest, I struggle with the discipline needed to take a one-a-day vitamin tablet. Morning coffee comes easy, the need for caffeine a deeply-rooted addiction, ditto a first-thing social media catchup; but habitualness and dedication...
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We are increasingly living our lives through filters. Through social networks, through smartphones, through the mortal coil of fibre and unseen airborne nexus. We're closer, yet further, than ever. In the communication age, it is so often through a...
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Made from the finest English bone china porcelain, the Doll Head cups from Polish ceramics studio ENDE are a curious, if mildly disconcerting creation. Based on moulds used in the production of pre-war porcelain dolls, the cups —...
Opening Soon • London
Was Sunday school still a thing when you were growing up? If not you may need some help with the mythology surrounding the Tower of Babel — a yarn from the Old Testament, when God was an angry and vengeful old grump. The story goes that after God...
Stuff Crush
Ceramics may not be viewed as the most exciting material by the majority however we know best and recent Central Saint Martins MA graduate Marta Bordes joins the designers and artists currently changing this perception. 'Challenging...
Journal
Katharine Morling's work is so good, it's confusing. That is, it takes a moment for the brain to put together exactly what's going on — at least my brain anyway. She describes what she does as three dimensional drawings in ceramic, and that's bang...
Opening Soon • Paris
Any clumsy pillock can drop a pot on the way back from the kiln, but it takes no small measure of artistic talent to break their creations on purpose in such a way as to enhance their appeal. Broken is one of the pieces in Farida Le Suavé's new...
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These plant pots by Tim van de Weerd are the kind of thing you'd have to warn house guests about before the came to stay. Imagine getting up in the night to use the bathroom and finding them crouched in a dark corner of the landing. You'd hear the...
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Nothing gives a room a macabre twist like an animal skull. Of course there's always the ethical question of how the unfortunate animal expired – was the skull discovered poking from the wind-whipped shifting sands of an unforgiving desert, like in...
City Notes
“A masterclass in conceptuality,” a hotel that “takes you on a fuzzy trip of vague recollection,” and “a paradise of inimitable escapism.” That’s what we said about Port de Sóller’s impressive Bikini Island & Mountain Hotel three...
City Notes
Hidden in the quiet heart of rural Spain, La Torre del Visco Hotel offers unrivalled luxury and adventures walking in a shepherd’s footsteps across the ancient Aragonese landscape that once inspired Picasso… In the early 20th century,...
City Notes
The world’s first StandardX hotel has opened in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the offshoot of the renowned global The Standard hotels, officially touted as the brand’s “rebellious younger sibling” with an offering of “intuitive hospitality without...
Stuff Crush
See captivating, never-before-published photographs of 1970s and '80s USA cultural hotspots including New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami Beach and more in Street Walker, a new publication from revered street photographer and...
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