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Award-winning UK design blog established in 2010 to discover, champion and inspire new designers.

Supermodel by The New English (skeleton plates)

design geekery :: the new english

Katie, January 19, 2012June 16, 2020
This article was published 15 years

As well as the column for the Heart Home Magazine blog I mentioned on Tuesday, I’ve also been writing a column for online design and lifestyle magazine, we heart, so I though I should start to share those with you too.

This week I wrote about The New English, a witty, if slightly disarming, ceramics company I discovered at designersblock. They were also at Home 2012 this week.

Supermodel by The New English (skeleton plates)

“Design Geekery; The New English

From a series of plates that, when arranged correctly, make up a human skeleton (titled ‘supermodel’), to anatomically correct bone china hearts with gold plated valves; what makes The New English different smacks you right between the eyes. They’ve been described as ‘the Vivienne Westwood…” 

Read the rest of the column over at we heart.

Further reading for the especially geeky:

  • out and about :: designersblock
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/25/british-ceramics-young-designers
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/8281433/All-fired-up-the-future-of-pottery.html
  • http://covetgarden.com/blog/2011/10/26/spooky-ceramics-from-fornasetti-and-the-new-english.html
This article was published 15 years
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