I hope you don't get bored with my crush for porcelain. It's also not the first nymphenburg post on fieldreport but this Lightscape  line I only just discovered and it's so beautiful it deserves an other mention here.

Sheets of hand-made paper, curved and folded into sculptures, made templates for vessels and plates. From these wafer-thin paper models, Nymphenburg porcelain master craftsmen then made delicate porcelain objects that match the original designs even down to their very fibre structure. The biscuit version – unglazed and unpainted on the outside, but covered on the inside with a fine glaze – draws all of its magical power from the architectural quality of the design and from the feel and the materiality of pure untreated porcelain.

More beautiful porcelaine. This time from the german designer Alexa Lixfeld.

"SHE COMBINED HER PIONEERING EXPERIMENTS WITH CONCRETE IN THE FIELD OF TABLEWARE WITH THE ULTIMATE IN FINISHING, THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE URUSHI LACQUERING TECHNIQUE FROM WAJIMA, WHILE LEAVING THE CONTRAST OPEN AND VISIBLE. AFTER A TEN-YEAR CAREER AS A MODEL, ALEXA LIXFELD STUDIED AT KÖLN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS PFORZHEIM AND DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS. SHE WORKS IN HAMBURG SINCE 2006, RUNNING HER OWN STUDIO."

Cups – porcelain vessel
Handmade vessels made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed.
Available in three different sizes and eight colours.

Kubus – porcelain vessel
Handmade vessels made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed. Through the productionprocess the vessels bend individually - so each piece is unique. Available in eight different sizes and eightcolours. The sizes are calculated so the vessels fit next to each other either way -it becomes an architectural game.

Ricebowls – porcelain bowl
Handmade bowls made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed.
Available in three different sizes and eight colours.

Showcase the process based development of contemporary design. The cooperation of computer aided design = CAD and traditional craftsmanship. Metamorphose of formal aspects of industrial manufacturing and uniqueness which can only be achieved from traditional handmade crafts.?Metamorphose of a cylinder and one straight as well as one upside-down smaller cone in CAD, conversation through CNC lathe and traditional craftsmanship. The shapes a computer generated, meanwhile its manufactured using crafts the improper ornament of the ridges become decoration. The design is subsidized by the colour graduation of solid coloured porcelain compound.?The set consits of nine shapes and five colours. The vessels can be ordered individually and in eight different colours.
 
awards:
NOMINATED: DESIGNPREIS DEUTSCHLAND 2010
FORM 2008
GUTE GESTALTUNG 09
DESIGN PLUS 09


www.alexalixfeld.com

It's getting obvious that I like ceramics and Porcelain but I think I'm not the only one how discovered this old artisanry.
I just came back from the paris fair and have seen more ceramics and Porcelain than ever.
This is quite a nice jung brand from france. They work make rather modern designs on Limoges Porcelain.

"Fascinated by the white gold from Limoges, NON SANS RAISON makes stir the Past’s conscience by making its promotion, through creative modernity and in the respect of the ancestral traditions. Performance, daring creation, imagination, innovation and know-how fit the creations and speeches in which NON SANS RAISON enjoys to evolve.Moved by passion and technical expertise, NON SANS RAISON has an impact over the table arts and develops this white gold in its collections."

http://nonsansraison.blogspot.com/