My Hole-and-Corner with... Photographer Jake Curtis
Photograph Sam Walton Taken from our book Make Well! – celebrating 10 years of Hole & Corner
Photograph Sam Walton Taken from our book Make Well! – celebrating 10 years of Hole & Corner
Photographs Sam Walton This excerpt was taken from Make Well! – the latest Hole & Corner book
Photographs Sam Walton Taken from our book Make Well! – celebrating 10 years of Hole & Corner
Photographs Sam Walton This excerpt was taken from Make Well! – the latest Hole & Corner book
London-born Keith Brymer Jones is a potter, writer and television judge on The Great Pottery Throw Down and The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts. His passion for ceramics was sparked at the ripe age of 11 when, while making a pottery owl, he first felt the escapism that comes from crafting. After a brief stint as the lead singer of a punk band (The Wigs) in the 1980s, Jones took an apprenticeship at Harefield Pottery in London and has been combining traditional ceramic techniques with modern designs ever since. His belief that ‘less is more’ is evident in his distinctive style, which has caught the attention of esteemed retailers such as Conran, Barneys NY, Laura Ashley, and Heal’s. Keith shared his hole-and-corner with us.
H&C Recommends: Perfumer H Woodland fragrance. Made in collaboration with Arts & Science, to imagine the scent of a woodland in central Tokyo. To celebrate this sensory achievement, we thought we’d revisit Lyn Harris’s My Hole & Corner. For Lyn Harris, founder of fragrance brand Perfumer H, the only way to survive is to have somewhere to escape the hustle and bustle of city life…
Visual artist, story book author and FEIT collaborator Oliver Jeffers discloses his secret sanctuary
Calling all creatives…ahead of the publication of our new book My Hole-and-Corner, we welcome you to join us during our residency at The Lab E20 in Stratford, London, to tell us about your own hole-and-corner and what object you would introduce to that place or space.
After studying fine art and textiles at Goldsmiths College and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art, Emily Nixon became the curator of her own art gallery in Edinburgh before moving to the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall.
Anna Murray is the co-founder of ‘Conscious Creative Organisation’ Patternity, which harnesses the power of pattern to inspire connectivity, collaboration and positive culture change.
A ‘hole-and-corner’ is an old English term meaning a secret place: somewhere you go to escape the world, to be inspired – to contemplate and create. Where is your ‘hole-and-corner’?
The Hole & Corner Shop’s resident ceramicist, Elaine Bolt, shares her secluded pocket of the South Downs...