Royal Delft has long been synonymous with Dutch tradition, tourism and lets face it kitsch. With the help from fresh young Dutch design talents the brand is now reinventing itself with a new series of porcelain called BlueD1653. Three master painters designed in collaboration with designers Arian Brekveld, Chris Koens and Damian O’Sullivan as many [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ceramics'
Cartoons in ceramic
December 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Ceramics
Peter Hiemstra exhibited last spring at our Open House, we were very honnourd and happy for this because his ceramic sculptures are truly wonderful! Peter Hiemstra is a visual artist who creates narratives in a cartoon sort of way. The visual narratives often take somewhere between bizarre and witty, honest and vulnerable. Peter Hiemstra lives [...]
Tags:Ceramics·Peter Hiemstra
Japanese online
December 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Ceramics, Design, Fashion, Interior Design, Uncategorized
Know idea how I found this beautiful Japanese online store, they don’t tell much about themselves so maybe they are such a big name that I ought to know them? Anyway please take a look at their site and blog it is all so very Japanese and beautiful … Hand hammered copper kettle Stools Japanese [...]
Tags:copper kettle·Japanese interior shop·Jurgen Lehl·wooden stool
60+ unique and glorious insects
November 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Art, Ceramics
Exhibition SCHWARM Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. To March 4, 2012. What began as a glaze assignment grew into this wonderful art work SCHWARM by artist RaR (Reinheimer and Ulrike Beate Rehm). Dozens of ceramic beetles each with a diameter of 30 cm centimeter crawling over the entire museum wall. You can read more on this [...]
Tags:ceramic beetles·Keramiekmuseum Leeuwarden·Reinheimer·Schwarm·Ulrike Beate Rehm
Porcelain vessels
November 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Ceramics
Beautiful porcelain vessels by Anna Sykora … ” This looks somewhat Japanese” is what European often say, “What you craft looks very European ” is what Japanese say. More of her works on Anna’s site
Tags:Anna Sykora·Ceramics·porcelain
Bespoke tiles
November 2nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Ceramics, Interior Design
Born in Tanzania, Lubna Chowdhary is a ceramicist now living and working in London. Lubna studied 3D Design at Manchester Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art where she was awarded an M.A. in ceramics and glass. She makes beautiful tiles for the home … … and also public art commissions, like this magnificent composition [...]
Highlights
September 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Ceramics, Design, Fashion, Handmade, Interior Design, Jewelry, Life, Uncategorized
This weekend we visited Meesterlijk in Amsterdam. A few highlights … Jacomijn van der Donk uses twigs, pebbles and paintbrushes in her beautiful jewelry. Snurk produces wonderful bed linens and recently also cushions This is Bob. Bob loves sniffing around, walking, not listening and stealing sandwiches from the kitchen sink. But most of all Bob [...]
Tags:Arjan Vaandrager·Jacomijn van der Donk·Saddle stool·Sjoerd Vroonland·Snurk
My new ceramics!
September 23rd, 2011 · 5 Comments · Ceramics, Life, Uncategorized
This time of the year there are many Art Fairs going on. So far we went to The Open Art Fair, the Ceramic Fair Keramisto and this coming sunday we are going to visit, Meesterlijk, a Design and Crafts Fair in Amsterdam… Many of you asked me what we bought at Keramisto, well here they [...]
Tags:Ceramics·Daniela Schlagenhauf·Karin Putsch-Grassi·Keramisto 2011·Uwe Lerch
Shopping spree
September 19th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Ceramics, Fashion, Life, Photography, Uncategorized
The weather was just fine whilst visiting Keramisto but as soon as we sat down to have our traditional pick nick at the lake it started to rain. Other than that we had a wonderful time and we went on a big shopping spree! We came home with 5 beautiful new pieces of ceramic. Soon [...]
Keramisto 2011
September 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Ceramics, Life
As some of you may know I am a collector of ceramics … not a very big one mind you but whenever I have a chance to go to an ceramic fair or gallery I go. This is the 4th time we are going to visit Keramisto, a huge international ceramics fair. Since this is [...]
Tags:Ceramics·International ceramic Fair The Netherlands·Keramisto 2011·Petra Bittl·Pottery
