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Continuing to make products that make one smile, designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo.
The 180mm-high vase is a standard Japanese case with porcelain doll legs attached. Each pot is decorated differently using either lustre, clear or no glaze, some fettling and sometimes a spot of lace, to ensure that each pot has an individual personality.
Lemmer did a ceramic apprenticeship at Dartington Pottery in Devon, England, in 1999. However, his life took a different direction when he returned to South Africa. Having always longed to return his hands to clay, Lemmer spent a few months working with Kalk Bay potter Christo Giles to revive his technical finesse. Back in form, he borrowed a kiln from a friend's mother and made a space for it in his studio in Paarden Eiland, from whence the Dolly Pots were born.
"I like to use anatomy in my work and I feel that my most successful products are the humorous and idiosyncratic ones. The Dolly Pot complies with all of this, which makes me love it even more. This is the first Dolly in the range but watch out as there are more Dollies up my sleeve!" said Lemmer.
Continuing to make products that make one smile, designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo.
The 180mm-high vase is a standard Japanese case with porcelain doll legs attached. Each pot is decorated differently using either lustre, clear or no glaze, some fettling and sometimes a spot of lace, to ensure that each pot has an individual personality.
Lemmer did a ceramic apprenticeship at Dartington Pottery in Devon, England, in 1999. However, his life took a different direction when he returned to South Africa. Having always longed to return his hands to clay, Lemmer spent a few months working with Kalk Bay potter Christo Giles to revive his technical finesse. Back in form, he borrowed a kiln from a friend’s mother and made a space for it in his studio in Paarden Eiland, from whence the Dolly Pots were born.
"I like to use anatomy in my work and I feel that my most successful products are the humorous and idiosyncratic ones. The Dolly Pot complies with all of this, which makes me love it even more. This is the first Dolly in the range but watch out as there are more Dollies up my sleeve!" said Lemmer.
One lucky reader can win a Dolly Pot. To enter, send your contact details to dimagazine@interactiveafrica.com before 15 April 2008.
The winner of William Kentridge Flute is Milisani Mniki.
The winner of a Clinton Friedman book and print is Fiona Cheesman
