Grotto — Cut spring

Grotto — Cut springCut from something larger. The Grotto collection was made for those who want their botanicals bold the leaf as shape rather than specimen, colour as the whole point. The Cut is its most graphic expression large abstract leaf and teardrop forms in cobalt blue on white, flat and clean with no gradient or detail. The design owes something to Matisse's paper cut period: the leaf reduced to its silhouette, the composition held in balance between blue mass

Order hiding inside order

The palette leans warm and a little faded

It's the busiest

then didn't

or the cross-section of sedimentary rock — a record of something that accumulated slowly and evenly

A graphic little standout for the shelf

Long olive stems rise the full height of the mug

locked together

Pale pink bands blur at their edges

The rows undulate

The Medallion works differently — it tiles

Up close the cells are individual