One of our favourite places is Wowie Zowie in Chorlton, and not just because they buy West German Pottery from us! They stock a wide and amazing range of mid century, retro and vintage bits and pieces. Virtually everything that is in that shop, we either already have or covet madly. If we ever open…
Author: Emma
Vintage Woman’s Own Magazine: July 1952
Greetings from 1952. This week, we have some ‘Romantic Fiction’, ‘Vera Lynn’s story’ and ‘Two Gay Summer Jumpers’; goodness only knows what Google Search will make of that last feature. There are going to be some very disappointed visitors to this blog… “Gone with the wind: We have all heard of flying saucers, but have…
Striking Steuler
Now the regulars of the WGP world who frequent my blog will probably think, “Finally!” when they read that heading. I asked aeons ago if anybody had any fantastic Steuler pieces that I could share via this site, as I wanted to do a post to show off the fantastic variety of pieces that Steuler created….
All Creatures Great and Small…
No, you haven’t accidentally gone to the wrong blog. Nor have I had a religious experience. But it did occur to me this morning that many of the more unusual retro items we have appear to have an animal theme. So, here are some of the beasty bits and bobs lying around our house: I’d…
A Little Ray of Sunshine…
Now, I’m writing this in advance, so it might very well not be sunny by the time it’s published. I don’t care. At this moment in time, I’m feeling much happier so it’s all about colours to reflect that mood. Teacher’s strike aside, I’ve got two devolved INSET days… in Basic English, this means I’ve…
I’m Feeling Blue…
I miss my blog. The computer is completely messed up so I’m writing this with it working in safe mode. Whoever the horrendous idiot is who created the Windows Vista Recovery virus: shame on you. Why release something like that? Until the PC is fixed, we’re not uploading any pictures to it; nor are we…
Much More Than Fat Lava… Amsterdam Exhibition 2011
This wasn’t a first in the world of West German Pottery, but the More than Fat Lava exhibition in Amsterdam certainly felt like it to me. I’ll let the pictures do the talking about the pottery – there were some fantastic pieces mixed in with, as has been pointed out elsewhere, more familiar glazes, forms…
‘More Than Fat Lava’ West German Pottery Exhibition
I’m flying off to Amsterdam tomorrow night to go to this: And I’m a little bit excited. For about £100, I’m flying out with Easyjet and staying in a very budget hotel near to the airport. Saturday morning, I’m going to have a wander around Amsterdam before meeting Aidan to visit the ‘More than Fat…
Italian ‘Tourist Tat’ Pottery
As mentioned a few posts ago, not only do we have a fine selection of slightly more sophisticated and acceptable Italian pottery (the Bertoncello bits and bobs); we also have an increasingly growing ‘Tourist Tat’ selection. This one even has the name of the hotel written on it: “Motel Maxim”. Actually, it’s a motel, isn’t…
Dümler & Breiden: Polar Pottery
Third (more like twenty-third) time lucky for this post today. I appear to be experiencing technical difficulties with WordPress today. If you hear a high-pitched yelp followed by a loud crunching noise in approximately ten minutes’ time, that’s the sound of me booting my computer out of the window in a rage! Ahem… after that…
Italian Pottery: Bertoncello
Yet another collection that appears to have exploded in size is that of our Italian pottery. For a long time, we didn’t know what these pots were: But then Aidan brought home this from the previous trip: Our fledgling collection of tourist tat Italian pottery has suddenly taken a turn for the more sophisticated. Apart…
Dallas Simpson Print
A burgeoning collection within the house is that of the ‘Big Eyed’ mass market prints. They’re definitely an acquired taste! I was pretty pleased when Aidan brought this Dallas Simpson print home from the last trip though: I haven’t been able to find any similar prints to this one by Simpson, but she was a…
Little Owl Ski 