August 15, 2007

Design within reach


We love pottery. We also love going on factory tours when traveling to new places. On the island of Murano while visiting Venice this spring, we made sure to pop into a glass "furnace" before leaving. If you are visiting San Francisco and are looking for something a little different, or maybe it is a chilly summer day and you don't want to head to a museum, I suggest stopping over at Heath Ceramics in Sausalito. They have museum quality designs, restaurant ware and just beautiful everyday ceramics that make a wonderful keepsake or gift.

Edith Heath (1911-2005) founded Heath Ceramics in the mid-forties when following her one-woman show at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, her pieces were picked up for sale at Gumps of San Francisco. For the past half-century, Edith's life was dedicated to the craft of ceramics as one distinctly tied to the skill of the artisan. This passion, along with the legacy of her work in stoneware body and glaze development, gives Heath its unique place in ceramics today. Many of Edith Heath's pieces are currently in the collections of museums such as the MOMA in New York City.

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