Our ornamental charms—each one adorned with a unique image like a homing pigeon or fairy mushroom or fish bowl from John Derian’s extensive collection—come in a variety of shapes and sizes. How you use them to adorn your home—Wall decor! A decoration for your tree! A key fob!—is entirely up to you.
The fruit of Penkridge Ceramics’s labor? Well, fruit. Specifically this collection of meticulously crafted ceramic objets like Santa Rosa plums and heirloom tomatoes on the vine, Turban squashes and tamarillos, with an eerily realistic trompe l’oeil effect take their inspiration from historical still lifes.
With summer coming to a close and fall’s harvest approaching, there is no better time of year to turn our attention—or rather, our decoupage attention—to the growing bounty of fruits and vegetables at our fingertips. Plucking, as always from John’s vast archive of antique images, you’ll find ornamental radish charms or berry-strewn coasters or domed wheat paperweights.
Even for those whose school days are in the distant past, once September hits, the feeling of summer’s end as we get back to business, is seemingly inescapable. We channeled just that in our latest collection which takes its cues from the school set—you’ll find notepads and notebooks decorated with John Derian’s signature prints; hand-painted wooden “books” by artist Leanne Shapton; a rainbow of chalk by Fredericks & Mae ideal for chalkboards or sidewalks; and, of course, apples… though our Penkridge ceramic ones are for eyes only.
Definitive proof that good things do indeed come in small packages: John Derian’s postcards and matchboxes, all of them emblazoned with prints like a rose spray or five of spades or bunny shadow puppet or the Eiffel tower culled from his vast collection of antique imagery.
Astier de Villatte, the iconic French brand beloved for their stark white tableware, teamed up with John Derian once again but, this time around, the white does not stand alone. Instead, their glazed white plates and pitchers and bowls make for an ideal backdrop against which John’s signature imagery—a heart with crown, a sepia rose, a bright yellow butterfly—pop. See the new Pieces here, and shop the whole collection here.
The jewel in our fall decoupage collection crown is our Delft series: round plates, cake pedestals, and mirror buttons that perfectly mimic the famous Dutch-born blue earthenware. But wait, there’s more—a cake pedestal in bloom with white hydrangeas; trays and paperweights glimmering with precious gems ; and birds and bees and butterflies and berries immortalized on hanging rounds and diamonds that can do double duty as seasonal ornaments or year round tiny art pieces
We have mastered the fine art of gifting and weddings are no exception. In our special wedding season-ready collection you’ll find Astier de Villatte’s signature stark white ceramics; lovely keepsake wedding boxes, both antique and inspired by antiques (Antoinette Poisson’s hand-painted domino paper ones are a nod to an 18th century style); lovingly hand-sewn scrapbooks by Elam; and a radically different way to put a ring on it: Astier de Villatte’s offbeat glazed ring cups. See it all here.
