Setting the tone: East meets West in ceramics

Invited to create the Colour Collection by Japanese ceramics brand 1616 / Arita Japan, the duo started with the traditional palette of the 396-year-old pottery, explains Stephen Scholten, ‘distilling the colours from historical pieces of ceramics and using glazes to evoke landscapes’.

The duo aimed to ‘bridge the gap between high craft and functional object’, explains Scholten. ‘Ceramics these days is more about collecting over time than buying a whole dinner service, so we have produced different types of items, some plain, some colourful, some extraordinary.’ The results are a sensitively mismatched collection that can grow slowly in any discerning consumer’s cupboards.

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