I’m actually going to annoy myself today by singing that over and over and over… good job there’s no-one else here yet. Behold: Just to prove to you that the West German Pottery designers really did take their inspiration from anything and everything: rocks included. ES Keramik are one of those factories that, until more…
Category: West German Pottery
The West German Pottery Empire Expands…
…Taking over the house once again! Well, Aidan arrived back at 2am yesterday morning, literally fizzing over with excitement to be back (“I drank 2 litres of Coke to keep awake…”); and we did stay away, until five in the morning! We resisted the urge to unpack the car in the dead of night, restraining…
West German Pottery Illustrators
The field of West German Pottery is ever-expanding. Now it seems that the vibrancy and vividity of the glazes, forms and colours are inspiring people far more talented than me to create some beautiful artwork. Elisandra’s Illustrations: Germany based illustrator Elisandra has created some fantastic digital artwork, based on the West German designs. Her blog,…
Big Pot, Little Pot: Ruscha West German Pottery
This is slightly different from the usual ‘Big Pot, Little Pot’ post as both of the sizes are fairly tiny: Three of these Ruscha pots came from the last Germany trip; the little blue one was found in a charity shop in Stafford. Just goes to show that you can still find them for a…
Glazes Galore… It’s the Scheurich 414
I’m very pleased with my latest Scheurich 414. So much so, that I wanted to take some pictures showing off all 28 versions of the pot I now have: In the grand scheme of things, it’s not really that many. Scheurich were one of the most prolific of the West German Pottery manufacturers, creating hundreds…
60s Spage Age West German Pottery
We’ve been experiencing internet issues here. On Wednesday, a mysterious BT engineer appeared, fiddled around with the telephone mast and disappeared. Internet and phone went down. Thursday, he reappeared, told Aidan that all of the lines had been swapped over on the street and everyone was receiving their neighbour’s calls. Now as we’re not with…
Funny Friday: Otto and Sgrafo
As seems to be the case, the West German pottery that we decide to keep often gets blogged about last. Because some of the stuff we sell shifts so quickly, I often write about it before it’s disappeared from my memory. Unfortunately (for my little blog), Aidan’s managed to shift so many of the pots…
New Carstens Ankara Pottery
This is take two for this post. The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that I tried to write about my gorgeous Carstens Ankara earlier in the week. Unfortunately, the WordPress gremlins were out to play so it all messed up. Fingers crossed for this time round! These are all new ones bought on the last…
The Ebay Blitz on West German Pottery!
Aidan has uploaded a massive amount of pots onto his Ebay account. If you’ve not done so already, go and check out some of the gorgeous pots he has for sale. Look for them here… There are more, including some lovely Roth and Scheurich pieces. But can I find the pictures for them within Aidan’s…
West German Pottery Exhibition: June 18th 2011
This looks to be a fantastic exhibition. Featuring – quite literally – more than just ‘Fat Lava’, the exhibition will feature unusual, rare and studio pottery. Details from the Pottery and Glass forum are below: More than Fat Lava Mid Century & Modern German Ceramics Puntwg Adres: M.v.B. Bastiaansestraat 15 1054 RS Amsterdam Exhibition to…
No Fat Lava Here…
Sometimes West German Pottery doesn’t have to be a multi-coloured froth of glaze: ocherous with burnt orange, violaceous with amaranthine or rubescent with flame reds. Sometimes it can be sleek. Refined. Restrained in it’s perfect, poised design. Scheurich
People, Animals and Pottery
I have discovered the names of two new phobias today: Polyphobia and Tapinophobia. Polyphobia is the fear of many things and Tapinophobia is the fear of small objects. Imagine anyone with either of those coming into my house! Isn’t there something somewhere that says that humans are obsessed with themselves (unless they’ve got autophobia –…
Little Owl Ski 