Decorative and Design

Oneida

Karen Karnes is a modernist and originator of the art pottery movement in the United States. Her pieces are abstract and meant for display but retain an air of functionality. Karnes calls on traditional techniques such as wood and salt firing to finish her wheel-thrown pottery. “Winged Vessel” makes use of the wood firing process to produce a muted and variegated palette.

The Wisteria collection takes its inspiration from the intricacies of form and texture found in foliage from around the world. By interpreting plant forms in cast metal, Aram presents work, which is evocative of a natural environment transformed and redefined. Each piece is an intimate expression of Aram's individual creativity as well as an object of infinite and timeless meaning.

Fascinating combination of ceramic and kinetic arts from Brooks Oliver, whose practice explores illusionary tactics for disarming and uprooting the viewers perception. The “Wobble Vase” series incorporates ideas gleaned from several years Brooks spent studying industrial engineering, utilising a precision of angle and production that bring to mind the cool, simplified shades of modernism in their soft use of angle and surface via celadon ceramic. The destabilised resting position — carefully balanced to provide a fixed axis of movement — offers playful interactivity and the insertion of some restless or oblique sensitivity to the object; the proportions and functional state vacillating between a practical vessel and industrial widget or toy.

Fascinating combination of ceramic and kinetic arts from Brooks Oliver, whose practice explores illusionary tactics for disarming and uprooting the viewers perception. The “Wobble Vase” series incorporates ideas gleaned from several years Brooks spent studying industrial engineering, utilising a precision of angle and production that bring to mind the cool, simplified shades of modernism in their soft use of angle and surface via celadon ceramic. The destabilised resting position — carefully balanced to provide a fixed axis of movement — offers playful interactivity and the insertion of some restless or oblique sensitivity to the object; the proportions and functional state vacillating between a practical vessel and industrial widget or toy.

Fascinating combination of ceramic and kinetic arts from Brooks Oliver, whose practice explores illusionary tactics for disarming and uprooting the viewers perception. The “Wobble Vase” series incorporates ideas gleaned from several years Brooks spent studying industrial engineering, utilising a precision of angle and production that bring to mind the cool, simplified shades of modernism in their soft use of angle and surface via celadon ceramic. The destabilised resting position — carefully balanced to provide a fixed axis of movement — offers playful interactivity and the insertion of some restless or oblique sensitivity to the object; the proportions and functional state vacillating between a practical vessel and industrial widget or toy.

Fascinating combination of ceramic and kinetic arts from Brooks Oliver, whose practice explores illusionary tactics for disarming and uprooting the viewers perception. The “Wobble Vase” series incorporates ideas gleaned from several years Brooks spent studying industrial engineering, utilising a precision of angle and production that bring to mind the cool, simplified shades of modernism in their soft use of angle and surface via celadon ceramic. The destabilised resting position — carefully balanced to provide a fixed axis of movement — offers playful interactivity and the insertion of some restless or oblique sensitivity to the object; the proportions and functional state vacillating between a practical vessel and industrial widget or toy.

- Plate, gift boxed - Made in France, imported by LACMA