Antique Vases For Head Bangers and Tableware for Trendy Urbanites.

This certainly ain't your grandmother's tableware. Well, okay, it is. Only with Pierre Blanc's added imagery of trendy pop culture icons and heavy metal bands. Roccocco and baroque china and porcelain plates, trays, amphoras and vases take on an edge not found in the average antique store.


above: The inherently jarring juxtaposition of Metallica on a pale pink and gilded vase is like Meissen-goes-maniacal.

above: Pairing the Pope with a Boombox is something you don't often see










Pierre also takes antique floral and gilded plates and applies the trendy urban imagery of guns, boomboxes/ghetto blasters, turntables, masked mexican wrestlers and muscle cars:
















I can't forget to mention his hilarious kitschy plates featuring tv and movie icons like Charles Bronson, Dallas' Booby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) and Fantasy Island's Mr. Rourke (Ricardo Montalban) and Tatoo (Herve Villachaize):







Pierre sells these pieces and more in his online store at Le Garage, Pierre Blanc.

Canvas Textured Ceramic Vases & Pots by Kiki van Eijk

Kiki van Eijk's Canvas Series is a collection of ceramic pots and vases in various sizes that look as though they are made of textiles. The process of creation is that the pots and vases are first made in textile and embellished with details then cast in ceramic.

Small vases:

Medium vases:

Large vases:

Small pots:

Medium pots:

Large pots:

XL pots:

Produced and Distributed by Serax Maison d´etre

You can see more of Kiki van Eijk's work here.

Bas Van Beek's Hybrid Vases For Pols Potten

Dutch designer/artist Bas Van Beek has earned a reputation as an anti-elitist artist and a harsh critic of others.

When it comes to working with ceramics, he playfully combines existing objects, exemplifying that present technological processes may be used for generating new forms which devalue the meaning of limited editions.

His first collection called “Rip-Offs,” was followed up with “Prequels" (both can be seen here) and now his "Hyper hybrids."

But his five Hybrid vases for Pols Potten, the Netherland modern interior design company, are what I wanted to share with you. Available in white, silver or gold, they fuse animals with objects to become functional and fun pieces.

Artist Bas van Beek's Hybrid ceramics for Pols Potten:

Wolf Watering can vase:

Rooster vase:

Bambi vase:


Fred Vase:


Three of his hybrid vases glazed in gold lustre were part of his exhibit at the Glass and Ceramics Gallery in Wroclaw:

above photo courtesy of designws


his website

I'm A Fool for Smool: Robert Bronwasser's Newest Ceramic Designs

Last week at Salone del Mobile, smool of the Netherlands introduced a new design collection of tabletop ceramics by Robert Bronwasser for Royal Goedewaagen.



above: smool booth at Salone Del Mobile

The new collection includes

his fun little ceramic people:


modern money pigs (piggy bank or coin box):



ceramic paper trays:

the tuliptile vase in new patterns:




new tableware:

and nautical service (dinnerware with skulls) for DLS:






Smool
Royal Goedewaagen