Utopia

Jonathan Adler the Master Ceramicist
Utopia Faces platter

Lord and Lady Reversible Mugs

Steward and Stewardess Reversible Vase

Williamsburg Hipsters Reversible Vase

Butter Dish

Women Pitcher


It's UTOPIA just thinking about Jonathan Adler's fabulous collection of stoneware peeking through sheer white glaze.... Jonathan Adler is the Lewis Caroll of interior Design.... He's a local New York designer who I got the chance to see up close at a charity brunch in Brooklyn. Seemed really sweet and such a megatalent!!! I have been a huge fan of his Utopia collection for years and keep a constant eye on it online in case of sales... As you will see on his website, not all his work is created in this soft etherial style, he is a man of diverse styles and talents, but this is my favorite body of his work. These pieces are so etherial, so soft... they remind me of something I could find in a thrift store in a dusty side street in some european city I have yet to discover, a place where the cheese is so stinky and the grapes are so sweet, a place where it's fine to be naked in the herb garden and where the old ladys use twiggy brooms to shoo grey cats away from the rooftops... I got my mom the Lord-Lady reversible mugs for mother's day last year and told my husband that should we come into great fortune this year I want to buy myself a special prezzie from this same collection! Just one special cup, please oh please! I love the reversible faces on these items, especially some of his latest creations, the hipster and hipsterettes, inspired by the characters seen around Williamsburg. (A neighborhood close to Johnathan's ceramics studio and not far from my house. Williamsburg has become so trendy so and overrun by so called starving artists, that it has become a parody of itself! These mugs are a perfect time capsule, their faces capture the poser inside all of us!!!)
Jonathan started as a ceramicist but his talents have sprouted to include needlepoint, furniture, leather stuffed rhinoes, butter dishes and Christmas ornaments to name a few... always so practical! Pick up his book here!