Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
-- The story of how ceramics student David Grant's dream became a successful company with an international reputation for quality and innovation.
-- Lavish color illustrations comprehensively catalogue all of the company's patterns.
Highland Stoneware, the Pottery of the far northwest of Scotland. produces world-class tableware and decorative ceramics. Once an improbable dream, it has been a successful reality for a quarter of a century. This book is a celebration of this remarkable achievement. It illustrates in color all the patterns produced since the firm's founding and many special pieces made for exhibitions or by visiting artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi and Archie McCall. Manufacturing processes are described and illustrated, and details are given about the craftsmen, past and present. Factory marks and decorator's monograms are shown, and there is a full index.
Synopsis
Patterns and special pieces illustrated in color.