In many ways Fliff Carr’s works are beautiful pieces of function, a lidded pot for keeping your own treasures, a luxurious butter dish for a special breakfast – a cheese dish even.

However, as you look at the piece closely it begins to reveal its poetic story; the fine, shell-like domes recall the shape of buoys bobbing in the water. The ‘mudlark’ finds are clustered, clinging like barnacles, or sitting proudly like sentinels on top.

The Breakfast Table

There is a very special house, in the historic area of Spitalfields in East London, that has inspired our latest collection.

Dennis Severs’ House is a gem of early 18th century London architecture. Built in 1724 and saved from dereliction by the Spitalfields Trust, Dennis Severs reconfigured it in the 1970’s  to tell the story of an imaginary Huguenot family who had lived there since it was built in 1724.

The remarkable thing about the house is that it is set out as if the family has just left for the day, with surprising and humorous details at every turn. 

(Dennis Severs’ Kitchen: Photography by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies)

It was on a recent visit to the house, and seeing the kitchen table (above), set for breakfast by candlelight, that led us to commission the ceramicists Fliff Carr and Rebecca Brown to create a special collection for a late winter, early spring breakfast table.

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