Design and Create Contemporary Tableware: Making Pottery You Can Use
Ebook
Overview
A highly illustrated step-by-step guide to designing and making contemporary tableware in clay, featuring inspirational pieces by leading designers.
’This book is a go to book for the art of creating tableware... The level of experience between the pages of this book from Sue and Linda is unquestionably invaluable to the reader.’ Keith Brymer Jones, Master Potter and judge on The Great Pottery Throw Down
The tableware we use is very important in our everyday lives, whether plates, bowls, mugs, cups or teapots. This stylishly illustrated guide helps budding and established ceramicists alike to create practical and attractive ranges, starting with design principles, working through appropriate construction techniques, and leading on to decoration and finishes.
Leading designers Sue Pryke and Linda Bloomfield explain the importance of inspiration and consistency in design, providing step-by-step guides to the main making methods, which include hand building, pinching, coiling, throwing and slipcasting. They also offer advice on using various clay materials – such as recycled and reused clay bodies – and the combination of clay with other materials including wood, metal, textiles and synthetics. Tips are provided on glaze fit, dishwasher- and microwave-safe glazes, firing and finishing.
Featuring beautiful photographs of the work of such prominent tableware makers as Sasha Wardell, James and Tilla Waters, Reiko Kaneko and Nico Conti, there are many sources of inspiration for those wishing to further their tableware ambitions.
A highly illustrated step-by-step guide to designing and making contemporary tableware in clay, featuring inspirational pieces by leading designers.
Author Sue Pryke was a co-judge on series 3 of Channel 4’s hugely successful Great Pottery Throw Down with 41k followers on Instagram. Linda Bloomfield’s tableware is showcased at the Royal Albert Hall Café Bar and has previously been used on The Great British Bake Off; she has 31k Instagram followers.
With an ongoing interest in sustainable crafting, the inclusion of recycled and reused materials make this book topical.
Features beautiful images, including pieces from established and new tableware makers such as Sasha Wardell, James and Tilla Waters, Reiko Kaneko, Feinedigne studio, Feldspar studio and Nico Conti.
Introduction
Inspiration
Design: How to Make a Coherent Tableware Collection
Materials: Types of Clay
Clay Preparation and Recycling
Health and Safety
Making Methods
Glazing
Firing
Finishing
Conclusion
This book is a go to book for the art of creating tableware. Not only is it beautifully illustrated with wonderful examples of work. It explains in simple easy to understand terms of how to get started. The level of experience between the pages of this book from Sue and Linda is unquestionably invaluable to the reader.
Owning the book is like having a master craftsman in your studio.
visually appealing… This is best suited for experienced ceramicists looking to elevate their craft.
This is a book to inspire anyone to enter a studio, get hands on and create their own stylish wares for the table.
This step-by-step guide is a great source of inspiration for those wanting to further their tableware ambitions.
Call this the apex of simplicity. Pryke and Bloomfield, commercial potters who design for powerhouses like IKEA, join forces to explain the how-tos of contemporary tableware… Color photographs showcase not only step-by-step details but also an incredible range of professional ceramics in the authors’ understated aesthetic.
Packed full of inspiration for those wishing to further their tableware ambitions, the book provides ideas for potters at any level of practice.
A useful one-stop guide to the end to end process of making tableware.
This book is beautifully produced and superbly illustrated
- Title: Design and Create Contemporary Tableware: Making Pottery You Can Use
- Authors: Sue Pryke, Linda Bloomfield
- Publisher: Herbert Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781789940732, 1789940737
- Resource ID: LLS:9781789940732
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:01:54Z
Sue Pryke – who has featured as a co-judge on Channel 4's Great Pottery Throw Down – is an award-winning ceramic designer specialising in tableware for retail and restaurants, and her clients have included IKEA, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and Wedgwood. She has lectured at numerous universities, including the Royal College of Art, Central St Martins and De Montfort University, UK.
Linda Bloomfield trained as a materials scientist before fulfilling her dream of becoming a potter. She has made thrown porcelain tableware in her West London studio since 2003 and sold her ranges through Liberty and Harrods, to Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa Restaurant and to The Clove Club. Her several books on glazes include Colour in Glazes and Special Effect Glazes.