Just home from Clerkenwell Design Week. I have a stack of business cards and brochures in front of me, but I’m going to reduce my report down to one name to watch: Ceramic and glass designer Owen Wall. He’s showing just four different plates at Craft Central‘s Design to Serve (until 25 May), which to my overworked eyeballs made a deliciously simple sight. See two of them on our instagram page, here (I forgot to use my proper camera – top work).

Owen’s website doesn’t do enough justice to his creations, but the piece below, with its lovely speckled glaze, is akin to what he’s currently showing.

Obviously this plate should be paired with farmer’s market-bought food served from a hewn-wood chopping block and wiped from your mouth with a natural linen napkin. Obviously.

Owen mainly works to commission for swish restaurants, including The Clove Club in Shoreditch Town Hall, and smaller runs of his pieces are individually made from his studio in Haggerston. I can’t get the green ones out of my head.