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If the name Pokorny wasn’t a dead giveaway, I’m part Czech. When I came across Petra Voglova’s lamps I was pleasantly surprised to find that she was too! Born in 1980 in Krnov to be exact. Her works are made from one of my favorite materials, porcelain. They are also carved works, not simply hand […]

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I’m still hooked on porcelain and I’m thinking I always will be. Looking back I think the obsession began when I was living in NYC right around the corner from ABC Carpet & Home. I used to go in and wander around the first floor looking at jewelry and stopping by their little shops within […]

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The last week has been a complete whirlwind of returning from the UK and moving my home up the street! We got the internet sorted and I’m back in action, as it were. I have a stable of cool people and products to post about as well but I’ve been so busy doing the necessities […]

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I spent today in London doing two things: eating and shopping. I was mortifyingly late to a brunch with my friend through Nest, Anju, who graciously let me infiltrate her weekend only to have me nearly sleep through brunch due to a Blackberry that decided it had not switched timezones. After a brief recovery and […]

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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 […]

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There’s a Boston gallery that specializes in fine Japanese crafts, Keiko Gallery, which is right near my house. I can’t wait to go by as I’m seriously into one of the artists they represent, Niisato Akio, a porcelain artist. According to their site he did a workshop at Harvard in March 2009, I wasn’t living […]

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I don’t know how I found her, but wow is Lilach Lotan’s work amazing. She was trained at the Bezalel Academy is Israel in ceramic design and the pieces she creates in her new home of Canada are phenomenal. For people who read this blog often, you know I’m into porcelain and ocean-inspired art and […]

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I learned about Yii when my brother sent me a link from MAKE of their brick and mortar bowls, below, but upon further investigation I learned that Yii is actually an initiative by the Taiwan Craft Research Institute. Some of their other pieces, in addition to the bowls, are out of this world — and […]

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This Boston artist is a woman after my own heart – just look at all those dots, look like amoebas to me! Isabelle Abramson lives near where I grew up in Boston’s Back Bay and I’m definitely interested in focusing more on what’s going on in various regions in the crafts/arts space. Not only that […]