PHOTO: Bombe vase designed by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, 1930FORM AND FUNCTION: CERAMICS BY DESIGN
Tuesday March 27, 2012, 6:30 – 8 pm Speaker: Rachel Gotlieb, Senior Curator Rachel Gotlieb, design scholar and Senior Curator at the Gardiner Museum, initiates the new Form and Function series with a lively talk about the important role of the designer in historical and contemporary ceramics. From Christopher Dresser, Susie Cooper, Keith Murray to Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders, she will discuss how designers enhance the functionality as well as foreground new styles and aesthetics in ceramic objects.
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$10 Gardiner
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Nice blog. You may be interested on a post on the Picasso exhibition currently in Sydney that is coming to Toronto in April. http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/picasso-exhibition-art-gallery-of-new.html