Our exhibition opened yesterday with a beautiful display of Vanessa’s cream porcelain tableware. We served tea from some of Vanessa’s stoneware (the black ceramics in the slideshow below) and where impressed with the teapot design also from a functional point of view – they pour really well!… sadly this is often not the case in teapots. It is really in the use that a design is fully appreciated – as beautiful as some things are it’s the day to day hands-on use that reveals a fully considered design.