Grotto — Cut spring Order hiding inside order

Order hiding inside order

or the cross-section of sedimentary rock — a record of something that accumulated slowly and evenly

Long olive stems rise the full height of the mug

Up close the cells are individual

The rows undulate

Grotto — Cut spring Order hiding inside orderCut from something larger. The Grotto collection was made for those who want their botanicals bold the leaf as shape rather than specimen, colour as the whole point. The Cut is its most graphic expression large abstract leaf and teardrop forms in cobalt blue on white, flat and clean with no gradient or detail. The design owes something to Matisse's paper cut period: the leaf reduced to its silhouette, the composition held in balance between blue mass