Delft Obsessed

Of course, Delft has been around for three or four centuries, imported from the original city of manufacture, Delft, via Amsterdam...and centuries before that when the Chinese first invented blue glaze on white porcelain, most commonly seen as the 'willow pattern'. Not new, then, but the ways it's being employed certainly are. Today there is but one remaining factory in Holland, Royal Delft, but I want to start out with a Chinese artist who is harking back to his cultural roots and creating afresh. Ah Xian, below:

 

And some other fun takes on Delft...

Stacking elephants from rstyle.me

Strewn bodies...

Dressing Delft

Framing miniature sweetness from Beyond The Fringe Crafts

 

So what happens when a designer lifts the concept and applies it elsewhere, not on a pot or a tile? Heritage Cabinet, Portugal:

Ana Rosa dresser:

Boca de Lobo

And Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam in a Surrey Farm...

Lastly, a progression in a good kind of way...when an interior designer says 'Sod it, I'm just doing the whole room Delft Blue.' I like that kind of abandon. 

Nice with the urns, innit?