These lovely porcelain objects from coe&waito make a beautiful gift. The cones (image above) are my favourite. Each porcelain pine cone is meticulously hand sculpted, capturing the intricate beauty of natural specimens.
coe& waito is Alissa Coe and Carly Waito from Toronto, Canada. They began their partnership while studying Industrial Design at the Ontario Colleage of Art & Design.
There gorgeous designs are sold by retailers in the US and Canada as well as by some international retailers in Paris, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Check out their website for more information.
(images from coe&waito)
Bailey Doesn’t Bark has added some beautiful new ceramic pieces to their collection. Bailey Doesn’t Bark is a contemporary home and life accessorie company that features uniquely witty and refined designs on consciously produced goods. Owner and designer Re Jin was born and raised in Brazil. She is now based in New York City.
You can visit Bailey Doesn’t Bark’s online shop to view & buy their designs.
Tonale is Alessi’s new tableware collection designed by British architect David Chipperfield. The colours of the various products are inspired by paintings of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.
The forms were inspired by ancient Korean stoneware.
Alessi: “Materials and colours are the two main assets of the service and invite the user to arrange the objects on the table so that they can be seen as a whole. The stoneware ceramic pieces come in tonal colours: light grey, light earth, dark grey, red earth, white earth, white yellow and pale yellow. The series is completed by an enamelled steel tray shaded in a dark green colour and available in a single rectangular size.”
(images from Alessi)
When I read about Diana Fayt on design*sponge I was immediately drawn to her beautiful vases. Diana is a talented ceramicist living and working in San Francisco. Her vases can be enjoyed with or without flowers. Diana on design*sponge: “Some things I consider when making a new vase shape is how many flowers will fit in the vase. Most people buy one bunch of flowers, not three. I want people to be able put their blooms in my vases with ease and not have to fuss too much but also to enjoy the vase without flowers as well.”
Diana has developed a process with ceramics in which she combines all of her loves; drawing, painting, printmaking and clay and refers to it as ‘as etchings in clay’. Diana is both a traveler and a lover of home. She gleans inspiration from nature, the mundane and life’s stories. Her ceramic pieces are often narrative with marks of time, events and images seen and experienced and then drawn into the surface of her clay platters bowls and vases. By doing this she hopes to leave a permanent mark that expresses her vision of what she experiences in the world around her.
Diana currently exhibits her work in galleries and fine boutiques throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe. You can purchase her gorgeous ceramic objects from her Etsy shop
Beautiful hand-made home accessories from Australian label Dinosaur Designs.
The B-set from Hella Jongerius was launched in 1999 and is generally considered to be an icon in the history of Dutch design. Reason enough for Royal Tichelaar Makkum to celebrate its 10th anniversary by extending the set with four new colours: blue, green, brown and pink.
While makers of crockery usually aim for perfection, the B-set is conspicuous for plates that can barely be stacked orderly, dishes that are not quite circular and mugs of varying thickness. Such little deviations come unavoidable with the deliberately chosen production process. The peccadillos make each piece special; the beauty of imperfection is made visible in a most inspiring manner.
The B-set is available from Royal Tichelaar.
Ceramicist Basma Osama lives and works in Montreal, Canada. First known for her small series of handbuilt pieces, she has been devoting her time since 2006 to setting up Ceramik B., her studio for conception and production for porcelain tableware. Visit Ceramik B’s website to see her handcrafted and exclusive objects.
About the pieces: “Inspired by organic silhouettes, the pieces carry an invitation. Their shape and texture naturally find their way to the hand. Each piece is conceived to be a statement by itself and yet to smoothly mix with other pieces to make a color contrast or to complement the shape and the function. The colors are thought in such a way to enhance the lines without overriding them and to allow the pieces to adapt easily to any environment.”
You might know Swedish designer Lisa Bengtsson from her gorgeoues photo frame wallpaper Familjen and her shoe wallpaper Svarmor. Lisa now has some new designs available which are can be admired at her solo exhibition in Stockholm (if you happen to be in the neighbourhood, the address is Designgalleriet, Odengatan 21).
For Swedish label Mairo Lisa designed Fabric Mademoiselle. This beautiful fabric is used for pillows and to upholster the chair in the images above. The plates are from a series of 12 unique plates called “between us women”. Each image is representative of a woman in one’s family and each plate has a saying on the back associated with that member of the family.
