PLUMES - DESIGNING FOR 1882 LTD
Collaborating with 1882 Ltd provided a wonderful opportunity to re-iterate and apply aesthetic principles of space, light and decorative design to a collection of everyday objects. We translated my designs into a new scale and medium, in this instance fine earthenware expertly fashioned by five generations’ worth of Stoke-on-Trent skill.
PLUMES is a tableware collection in which each piece stands on its own, and collectively charts the flight of a feather.
The design operates on a number of levels : there is the pleasant weight of cream glazed earthenware, the clean lines and generous scope of each vessel, and charcoal-drawn decorative motifs that journey across the pieces.
Observing the play of light and shade to intimate motion, to suggest the wind that carries the feather across the individual pieces of crockery.
In inspiration as in practice, this was a study of motifs in space, decoration in volume, born of a curiosity for the level of detail that exists in larger contexts.