This is my mantelpiece…

A friend just gave me the ceramic cat’s face, which is by Japanese illustrator / designer Chie Miyazaki. I love it. We saw it together at an open studio event in Camberwell just before Christmas and she remembered my reaction, which is so nice.

Here are a few more of Chie’s pieces.

The designer was sharing the studio space with Laura Carlin, whose work is also illustrative and ‘animaly’,  if quite different in feel. Here are some of her beautiful bowls, tiles and objet’s that are being sold by The New Craftsmen.

Gorgous aren’t they?