At the turn of 17^th century another new style of ceramics appeared at Mino, assertively promoted by the tea master Furuta Oribe, an apprentice of Sen no Rikyū, but his exact connection to the ceramic ware is still debated. Oribe (pronounced O-re-bay) ware enjoyed a special popularity amongst the high ranking military and aristocratic tea practitioners.

It originally used the copper green glaze, and was highly revolutionary and avant-garde for its time, unlike the other glaze styles developed at Mino (a ceramic production town) which solely focused on the glaze material as a conceptual and decorative basis, Oribe combined multiple hand-building and decorative techniques, creating a unique style, that was more geometric, often depicting very literal shapes, like fans. Glaze was poured, trailed or half-dipped, combined with painted decoration in iron oxide on the unglazed parts, it was unlike any of the other styles contemporaneously produced in Mino.

In this collection, I have re-imagined the Oribe aesthetic into a contemporary vocabulary.