Antique Vases For Head Bangers and Tableware for Trendy Urbanites.

This certainly ain't your grandmother's tableware. Well, okay, it is. Only with Pierre Blanc's added imagery of trendy pop culture icons and heavy metal bands. Roccocco and baroque china and porcelain plates, trays, amphoras and vases take on an edge not found in the average antique store.


above: The inherently jarring juxtaposition of Metallica on a pale pink and gilded vase is like Meissen-goes-maniacal.

above: Pairing the Pope with a Boombox is something you don't often see










Pierre also takes antique floral and gilded plates and applies the trendy urban imagery of guns, boomboxes/ghetto blasters, turntables, masked mexican wrestlers and muscle cars:
















I can't forget to mention his hilarious kitschy plates featuring tv and movie icons like Charles Bronson, Dallas' Booby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) and Fantasy Island's Mr. Rourke (Ricardo Montalban) and Tatoo (Herve Villachaize):







Pierre sells these pieces and more in his online store at Le Garage, Pierre Blanc.

3D Designer Andrew Beaumont Mixes Ceramics & Woods In His Trapped Vases.

An honours graduate in 3D design from the Univeristy of Plymouth, Andrew Beaumont uses digital technology along with his plaster mold casts to combine unusual materials and create strikingly original pieces. Mixing ceramics, earthenware and bone china with various woods, he has created a collection of 'trapped' vases and figurines unlike anything else you have likely seen before.

Below are many images from his impressive portfolio. I have also included some of his beautiful freehand sketches.

Black trapped earthenware vase with grey ceramic splash:

Trapped Vase (Bone China and Oak):

Trapped Vase (Earthenware and Tiger Oak):



Trapped Bear figurine (Bone China and Elm):






The Earbud Amplifiers (Ceramic and Oak):





Other pieces by Andrew Beaumont
Ceramic cups (produced by Muji):

Mini Pestle and Mortar (Bone China and Elm):

Bone china cloud vases:

Bone china salt and pepper bear shakers:

Bone china and wood roulette salad bowls:


Andrew Beaumont website
Andrew is currently looking for employment as a designer or a producer for his unusual pieces.

Thank you to IransDesign for bringing Andrew's work to my attention.