Design Driven Ceramics
Made in Stoke-on-Trent, England, by a 5th generation family
Innovative Designers + Industrial Craftsmanship + 5 Generations of Knowledge
Designer Spotlight
Photographer, Martyn Thompson, began his career making clothes before deciding to document them instead. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris prior to moving to London where his scope broadened into the world of interiors and still life.
Over the past 30 years Thompson has collaborated with several designers – most notably a long relationship with Ilse Crawford. He has worked to create the visual messaging of leading global brands such as Hermés and Ralph Lauren while also authoring two books, “Interiors” and “Working Space: An insight into the Creative Heart”.
A resident of New York now for many years, Thompson founded Martyn Thompson Studio, a multidisciplinary out t that has branched out from Thompson’s distinctive photography practice into a number of creative expressions. An aesthetic, anchored in the touch of the hand, stems from Thompson’s love of craft, and runs through his studio’s work, de ned by a tactile and painterly language that is a visual push me, pull me between nostalgia and now.
The studio has evolved to include textile and wallpaper design, homewares, limited edition art, as well as art direction for editorial projects. In addition Martyn Thompson Studio works with a number of brands as a creative consultant giving direction on the areas that help shape and de ne a visual identity: colour, mood and tactility.
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Innovative Designers.
Industrial Craftsmanship.
5 Generations of Knowledge.
DesiGN MIAMI 2024
1882 Ltd. presents imaginarium
Imaginarium – this year’s collection from 1882 Ltd. will be showcasing daringly imaginative, hand crafted one-off or limited-edition pieces by leading British creative visionaries, including Bafta and Oscar award winning art director & set designer Shona Heath, music artist Robbie Williams, furniture designer Max Lamb, ceramicists Amy Jayne Hughes and Leah Jensen, fashion designer Giles Deacon and Scottish artist Bruce McLean. In each piece there is a curiosity and playfulness of form, pattern, colour and texture that engages and enthrals.
1882 Ltd. champions inventively designed ceramic products from lighting to domestic ware to works of art whilst employing the manufacturing heritage of Stoke-on-Trent and promoting the British ceramic industry.
Our ceramics are to be used, loved and desired and to bring enjoyment be it in dining and decorative objects to lighting and art pieces. Each collection has a different spirit but they always stay true to our core beliefs.
There is incredible human skill in everything we do and we focus on the process as well as the design. There are no less than 10 processes to make a mug, all of which require great human skill. While we are keen to show the processes behind how something is made we value the importance of good design and superlative quality that will last the test of time. We are prepared to test the bounds of the material. We make what we love.
