VVD Collection additions for When Objects Work

2017

This collection of pots for When Objects Work already launched in 2004 is an exercise in restrained theme and variation. Although each piece can be experienced in isolation, the collection is conceived as an entity, the differences of scale and colour creating powerful rhythms and modulations expressed in a subtle but intense palette of a northern European sky.


Each piece was originally composed of two elements: an earthenware container and a wooden plate. Whilst the angle of the curve and the smooth profile of each pot are fixed, the diameter and height of the vessels vary, these shifts in scale determining whether the container framed is a bowl or a platter. The thickness of the wooden plate which serves as both cover and plinth is also variable.


Serene and sober, these pots have the abstract quality of the archetypal, but they have been pulled from abstraction into the world of physical forms, into things you want to touch and to hold, a certain material roughness is critical to their character – the slight irregularities in the surface of the clay and the soft, weathered grain of the wood.


In the recent years the collection has been extended to new materials like transparent and tinted glass, different types of stones and wood.


In 2017 an according tableware collection has been presented consisting of plates, bowls, glasses, cups, carafes and serving trays. Also new colours have been defined for the ceramic.



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Vvda Pottery 2017 For Wow
2017 Wow Collection
Vincent Van Duysen Pottery And Tableware 2017 Photo By When Objects Work 19
Vincent Van Duysen Pottery And Tableware 2017 Photo By When Objects Work 18
203  Vvd Glassware
6  Vvd Tableware Collection
4  Vvd Tableware Grey
1  Vvd Tableware Black
9  Vvd Bathroom Collection