WINNER
Modern Ceramic
AWARD PRIZE
The successful designer will be featured on the AUTHOR Interiors website and have their chosen piece exhibited at the London Art Fair 2024 Collectors Lounge.
The website feature will be in the format of a Makers Spotlight article within our magazine +/- a not-for-profit product page with the opportunity of selling their piece.
JUDGES COMMENTS
Modern Ceramic offers hand thrown ceramics that are minimalist and combine traditional pottery techniques with new materials and new techniques, in particular renewable and recyclable plastics. Founder Steve Cook combines materials to create objects with utility and a bit of a twist. Teapots and tea cups, carafes and glasses, incense burners and more.
BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
Steve Cook combines ceramics, sustainable plastic and wood using both traditional crafts and digital techniques to create minimalist contemporary objects for the home.
‘I create sculptural and usable objects for the home, working in ceramics, sustainable plastic and wood. I combine traditional crafts with newer tools such as CNC. I’m influenced by modernism, minimalism and the aesthetics of Japan and the Nordics. My work is about material juxtapositions, quiet harmony and hidden spaces.’
AWARD CRITERIA
For designers who have been in the working world for 1-3 years post training.