The young British designer Barnaby Barford, who cuts up old ceramic figurines and whimsically recombines the disembodied parts, just signed on.
At 26,000 years of age, this is the oldest ceramic figure in the world, yet she is also startlingly modern.
It's an old water pumping station right on the river and replete with an industrial feel – a bit like Tate Modern – with old ceramic tiles and heavy iron cranes and staircases.
After an epiphany that she found most dinnerware boring, Sarah Cihat, a ceramist based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, began pillaging local thrift shops for old ceramic dishes, and Rehabilitated Dishware was born.
Ms. Cihat is the designer of Rehabilitated Dishware — old ceramic dishes given new life with fresh patterns and glazing — as well as her own line of porcelain bowls, cups and vases made from scratch.
One of the owners is an artist and the green and white decor has a playful vintage charm (the kitchen sink is made from an old ceramic mixing bowl).
Still practiced today, this 120-year-old ceramic form represents the longest continuously practiced figurative-art tradition in the Southwest, said Mr. Anderson, author of the forthcoming book "When Rain Gods Reigned".
When the acclaimed chef Michael Cimarusti got ready to open the seafood restaurant du moment, Providence, he turned to Jennifer Prichard, a 36-year-old ceramic sculptor and installation artist, to help give the place the right visual cues.
The living area, which has a new polished gray concrete floor, is furnished with a bright orange sofa and a coffee table that Mr. Badia made himself by setting old ceramic tiles he salvaged from the renovation on top of a simple metal frame.
To evaluate the efficiency of a conservation treatment, the porosity of old ceramic tiles was assessed, before and after the application of Paraloid B-72.
