Word: porcelain
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...show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother...
...ORGANIC Forget rigidity. Home décor is going organic, at least in form. Jason Miller's ceramic Superordinate Antler chandelier imitates nature via incandescent bulbs. Lene Frantzen's felt cushion looks like a slab of tree trunk. Ted Muehling's porcelain vase ?grows moss.? And Viva Terra bowls undulate like petrified petals and are carved from Chinese fir roots...
...Shemtov says. The walls are covered in an ornate, patterned fabric, and a dark wood armoire feels very Renaissance. Embellishing the room are various tchotchkes from Shemtov’s collection, like a 17th century portable lap desk, a model foot from a shoemaker, and Chinese porcelain urns. Not all the bedrooms are as baroque. “While Baruch’s more about the overall feel of a room, I’m more interested in using the space in the most effective way,” explains Tines, who has a single. “From...
...down we all know that this way of living is crazy. We continue to happily munch Tommy’s Pizza’s constipation pies or the Hong Kong Chinese’s fried crab bowel dragoons as if the next day’s visit to the porcelain throne is going to be any different than the last. (From personal experience I must say that the absolute worst is indulging in 7-Eleven’s nachos with “free chili, and free cheese”—it’s not worth...
...very concerned that I would break my teeth when my head gets hurled into a porcelain toilet bowl. That's the Coen brothers [the directors] working on that problem...