Long obsessed with all aspects of traditional Japanese culture ... kitchen and fermentation laboratory lined with plants and pottery. Last year, he made soba noodles there every Sunday until ...

Do you know what those practicing the Japanese art of kintsugi do with broken pottery? Instead of trying ... The cup or the teapot is still functional. But not the same. The change is visible.

Chelsea track record: Won gold for his urban garden Tempest in a Teapot in 2008 ... started to study the ‘Ikenobo’ style of Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement), and his eyes were opened ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Since at least the 16th century, potters in China’s eastern Jiangsu province have transformed the local clay into ...

Chinese state surveillance of UK targets has reportedly included hiding a listening device in a teapot given to a civil ... New Zealand to northern China. Japanese, British and Canadian vessels ...

And if you call it a teapot, it's a teapot ... Shire, voice-over: In the sixties, my direction was towards pottery because it harkened to a trade, which of course made it déclassé in ...

If there’s a frequent tea drinker in your life, get them a stoneware pottery teapot and cup set from ... Kintsugi is the Japanese process of using gold lacquer to repair broken items, which ...

Ceramacist Karen Jobling with the Coundown teapot made by Ceramic Inspirations in The Pottery based in Leyburn. Photograph by Tony Johnson. Perhaps the most identifiable design within the company ...

Nearly every society throughout history has engaged in it in some form, from the Puebloan pottery of the American Southwest, which I discussed a month or so ago, to the Japanese chawan bowls depicted ...

Highlighting the 'ethereal mysticism' of centuries of Japanese craftsmanship and a desire for his designs to 'express the importance of heritage,' Young explains. 'It is easy to take a cast-iron ...