New Candid Canisters By Jonathan Adler.

Jonathan Adler has just added a slew of new high-fired porcelain stoneware containers to his collection of "Candid Canisters." From Peyote to Peroxide, the eight new storage boxes are glazed in high gloss black and white stripes. Eyelashes, Caffeine, Dope, Ganja, Shrooms, Peyote, Pep Pills and Peroxide vary slightly in size, but each comes with a matching lid and makes it chic to hide your stash or vice.






There's even one for your dog:

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Previous Candid Canisters in the collection:

Please note that all shown canisters vary in size. For prices, measurements and to purchase, go to Jonathan Adler.

Denmark's Anne Black Launches Her Ceramics & Jewelry In The U.S.

Copenhagen-based ceramist Anne Black graduated from Kolding School of Design in 1996 and was told to "go find a real job." Fifteen years later, she and her husband Jesper heads up a multi-million kroner enterprise with production facilities in Vietnam and a porcelain brand that's second only to Royal Copenhagen. Except Anne Black's contemporary and playful designs are entirely crafted by hand, using natural materials, and the company's approach is decidedly personal, fair trade and earth-friendly.



Now Denmark's top independent ceramic artist and designer, Anne Black has become a household brand name in Scandinavia and renowned across Europe. And so she is ready to take on the U.S.A.




With simple forms and delicate, understated graphical decorations, Anne Black creates unique and personal collections that are contemporary, yet classic, clean and distinctive. A product of the minimalist Scandinavian design tradition, the Anne Black collection includes jewelry, vases, cups, bowls, trays, knobs, and other home decor. Entirely manufactured by hand, using natural materials, each product reflects the designer’s respect for a classical material, porcelain, as well as an earth-friendly approach to production.

A few of her tabletop pieces from her varied collections:










And a glimpse at some of her jewelry which includes finger rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets:





All design and concept development takes place in Copenhagen, where Anne Black is based. Today, products are manufactured by hand in Hanoi, Vietnam in a workshop developed in partnership with DANIDA, the Danish International Development Agency, and in accordance with fair trade agreements.

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For U.S. Sales and Marketing Contact: Tina Vennegaard, Terra Firma/Los Angeles at 310-745-1040 or by email at tina@terrafirmaagency.com.

Canadian Emblem Vases By Katharine Morley

Miss your native Canada? Or want something to remember The Great White North by? Then consider these sweet Emblem Vases by Canadian artist and designer Katharine Morley.



Each of the porcelain vases features a hand drawn icon- be it flora or fauna- reminiscent of a province or place in Canada;
Pink Lady’s Slipper - PEI
Common Loon - Ontario
Great Horned Owl -Alberta
Inukshuk - Nunavut
Fleur De Lis -Quebec
Woodland Caribou -Newfoundland & Labrador
Spirit Bear -British Columbia
Red Spruce -Nova Scotia



Photos by Noa Bronstein

Title: Canadian Emblem Vases
Material: Hand drawn on porcelain, glaze
Dimensions: Approximately 7″ tall by 2.5″ diameter
Available: The Design Exchange Shop
Price: $50

Katharine Morley

Palace Porcelain Stacking Tableware by Seletti's Selab + Alessandro Zambelli.

Fun and functional, this porcelain tableware is a collaboration between Seletti's Selab and Allessandro Zambelli.

When not in use the modular dinner plates, salad plates, soup bowls and smaller bowls stack up to create buildings, complete with roofs. Take them apart and they are six table settings of square dishes perfectly suited for eating upon.








* Size (individual dishes--all dishes are square):
* Dinner Plate: 8.6" dia x 1" t
* Small Plate: 6" dia x .8" t
* Soup Bowl: 7" dia x 1.6" t
* Small Bowl: 4.3" dia x 2" t
* Salt+Pepper 5" dia x 2.5" t

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Student Projects in Porcelain. Manufactured by Bernardaud

From the 18th to the 22nd this past April 2007, as part of the Milan Furniture Fair, the Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud and the ECAL-Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne University of Art and Design Lausanne presented (at the Grand Hôtel et de Milan) projects in porcelain by students produced by the Bernardaud Factory.

These projects were selected following a workshop run by Alexis Georgacopoulos, head of the Industrial Design department of the ECAL, and Augustin Scott de Martinville, a professor at the ECAL.

“The idea initially was to look again at the traditional image of porcelain, which tends to be associated with tableware, by integrating it in different ways into the day-to-day environment,” explains Alexis Georgacopoulos. Students rose to the challenge by designing a range of varied and original objects: finely sculpted dominoes, a vase consisting of stacked plates, a chandelier with eight hundred small porcelain discs exploiting the material’s transparency, an enamelled cone in which to enjoy an ice-cream, four vases transformed into loudspeakers around an ingenious acoustic system… With humour, elegance, poetry and bravado, each piece questions lifestyles while subtly integrating the manufacturing constraints of porcelain.

The mission of the Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud, set up in 2003 by Michel Bernardaud, is to renew the way porcelain is perceived. Based in Limoges, it invites designers of all nationalities from around the globe to re-invent this material, to generate bold interactions, to explore new territory and ultimately to find new uses for this material. “We have been delighted with this collaboration which combines innovation and know-how and greatly appreciated the fact that the ECAL, one of the most prestigious design schools, wished to conduct a study of this still largely unappreciated material…” explains Hélène Huret, the Fondation’s director.

“Carte Blanche”
Private viewing was Tuesday 17 April 2007 from 7pm “Au Grand Hôtel et de Milan”,
Sala Verdi, (1st floor), via Manzoni 29, 20121 Milan.
Exhibition ran from 18 to 22 April 2007 (11am to 8pm).

This exhibition is supported by the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and the Economic Development unit of the Vaud Canton

High-definition images available from the sites www.ecal.ch or www.bernardaud.fr, and on CD-ROM on request.

Information:
Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne
4, avenue de l’Elysée
CH-1006 Lausanne
Tel +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Fax +41 (0)21 616 39 91
E-mail pierre.keller@ecal.ch
www.ecal.ch

Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud
11, rue Royale
F-75008 Paris
Tel +33(0)1 43 12 52 06
Fax +33 (0) 1 43 12 52 01
Press e-mail: sdufresne@bernardaud.fr
www.bernardaud.fr