Perhaps best known for sand casting his Pewter Stool in the natural landscape of Caerhays beach on the South coast of Cornwall back in 2006, industrial designer Max Lamb has continued on his quest to explore new ways of manufacturing products in nontraditional ways over the past ten years.
For the Crockery Collection, Lamb turned his attention to fine bone china tableware slip-cast from plaster models carved by hand with a rough stone-chipped exterior surface. Using the primitive tools of a stone mason, Lamb bypassed the traditional slip-casting workflow process consisting of a CAD model and a physical master model in favor of designs that are each “formed quite simply out of their own making”.
Once the production molds were created from the master models, the fine bone china slip – which contains 52% calcined animal bone for strength and translucency – is hand poured into the mold and a traditional slip-casting process is carried on out until the final pieces are trimmed and dried before being fired and glazed.
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More recently, the collection has returned as a revamped set in black basalt to celebrate the heritage of the British ceramic manufacturing industry – particularly in celebration of Josiah Wedgwood, who is credited with the industrialization of pottery in the 1700s:
Find out more about the unusual but brilliant collection – which starts at around $40 per piece – over at SCP.
