For most individuals, pandemic crafts had been a fleeting interest. However Henry Holland‘s lockdown obsession, a Japanese pottery method known as Nerikomi, made him fall in love with the meditative technique of stacking, folding, and rolling coloured clay into slabs, then hand-molding them into purposeful varieties. When he started to develop his personal tackle the strategy, he left his profession in trend and launched ceramics-focused way of life model Henry Holland Studio in 2021.
Henry Holland Studio’s ceramic tableware, vases, and planters are recognizable for his or her daring hues and swirly patterns—an natural, psychedelic look they’ve delivered to collaborations, too, launching collections of textiles, glassware, lighting, and furnishings with native artisans and makers. “I firmly consider that collaboration is essential for small manufacturers to develop and attain a world viewers,” Henry says. “By working with like-minded creatives, we will provide our prospects thrilling, lovely dwelling merchandise whereas additionally supporting the unimaginable craftsmanship right here within the UK.”
Whereas he’s gearing as much as launch his gingham assortment, Henry writes in from London along with his bedside desk necessities, his first design love, and the Parisian store that compels him to purchase ceramics apart from his personal.
You’re invited to dinner. What’s your go-to reward?
Embarrassingly, we all the time flip up with a bit of my ceramics. Both a candle or a vase. My husband says it’s embarrassing to maintain pushing our wares, however I prefer to assume individuals are joyful to obtain it!
What’s in your bedside desk?
{A photograph} of my mum, a Henry Holland Studio Swan Lamp, some ceramic face mugs we purchased in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Leigh Bowery’s biography by Sue Tilley, which I’m at present studying.
