In Chicago last weekend we went into the City one day and walked up and down Michigan Ave. In our true nesting mood we stopped into Anthropologie to look at their homegoods. As a lover of delicate porcelain and knitting my attention was grabbed by the below items.
I immediately fell in love but since they are SO delicate I thought I’d just get them here in Boston at our Anthropologie. I was wrong. Every Anthropologie gets different “found items” and it turns out these aren’t standard, they were found at a French flea market and are only at this one store in the country. Major error on my part. I started thinking back and recalled seeing another artist doing knitwear ceramic work and low and behold I refound Alyssa Ettinger.
When I called Anthropologie in Chicago to ask about them they told me that they were made from knit hats…I’m not sure how that process is done but the above by Alyssa seems similarly thin and realistic in its knitty-ness.
Alyssa makes some pretty amazing other items including these lighting pieces of thin porcelain Mason / Ball jars.I’ve seen photos around the internet of them lighting weddings and dinner tables – their translucense is pretty excellent.
She also does pieces that are ceramic with knitwear pressed into them to create texture, which are pretty beautiful. I think this is the first item of hers I was exposed to. Alyssa is originally from New England having attended the Putney School and Bennington College, which I used to pass on my way to Skidmore.
According to her site she is now working out of a warehouse in Brooklyn and is only working in porcelain due to its translucent quality – I love people as into porcelain as I am!
Tags: porcelain, pottery, weaving
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