{"id":124429,"date":"2022-02-01T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/she-was-an-alchemist-edith-heath-the-rebel-ceramicist-who-defined-postwar-california-modernism\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T07:06:37","slug":"she-was-an-alchemist-edith-heath-the-rebel-ceramicist-who-defined-postwar-california-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/she-was-an-alchemist-edith-heath-the-rebel-ceramicist-who-defined-postwar-california-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She was an alchemist\u2019: Edith Heath, the rebel ceramicist who defined postwar California modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA retrospective of the groundbreaking artist\u2019s work celebrates her love of ceramic chemistry and material explorationFor 75 years, no firm has embodied the ethos of casually upscale California design quite like Heath Ceramics. Founded immediately after the second world war by Edith Heath, a largely self-taught ceramicist and potter, the company revolutionized domestic ceramics, transforming the art form from stuffy tea sets to versatile, modern dinnerware.Now, a new exhibition in Oakland marks the first-ever solo exhibition of Heath\u2019s career, celebrating Heath as a ceramicist, a chemist and an entrepreneur, one whose half-century career helped establish California as a site of mid-century modernism while elevating ceramics as a genre. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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