I meant to post about these plates ages ago when the Heal’s Craft Market was still on. They’re by Majolica Works – AKA artist Wendy Jones and potter Liam Curtin – and are made from tin glazed earthenware, which is thrown and hand painted using traditional Majolica techniques. I admit it, I had to look up what Majolica means and it’s this: ‘Italian earthenware covered with an opaque glaze of tin oxide and usually highly decorated.’

I just love the patterns on those big plates above, I’d wear them if I could.

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Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Not long after Christmas I was sent an unexpected, unannounced and utterly engrossing gift from my friend in Poland. It is Building Stories, a graphic novel – a term which hardly does it justice – by artist Chris Ware. The novel comes in a large board-game sized box, containing fourteen different printed items.

Curator’s eye

We’ve been asked to curate some collections! Ebay got in touch with us – well it was inevitable after all those hours we’ve spent e-stalking vintage Formica tables in Middlesborough – to ask us to curate a series of collections. The idea being that we – along with lots of other stylists and bloggers – […]

House of Hackney for walls

Are you sick of hearing about printed tiles? Don’t answer that. Here are some more printed tiles we discovered this week at the House of Hackney launch. They’re available made to order from the shop in whichever HOH print takes your fancy. That’s Midnight Garden above, Ros’s favourite. I’m quite partial to the Palmeral print […]

Potted history of a design classic

Last week Vitsoe re-issued Dieter Rams’s 621 side table, which he originally designed in 1962. It’s an incredibly simple plastic table on the face of it – available in two sizes, black or off-white – but as ever with design classics, the intricate design process behind it is what allows for its simplicity. In his […]