Easter in the West End is beginning to take shape already! I don’t envy buyers who work so far in advance that they must imagine what the zeitgeist will be in three months’ time, but they always do….maybe their decisions simply become the zeitgeist. Anyway Harvey Nichols...
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It’s such a great name… it is a reinvention of her rose design that Mary Rose thought would look particularly good on plates and bowls…the coloured outer has dots and gold and contrasts with the background colour of the centre. This piece is in fact...
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Our pest controller needs to be fired because the Bugs are Back…. Here is a pretty stunning Medium Crown Edged Serving Bowl which you’ll already be saying isn’t exactly “bugs” it’s more just Butterflies mixed with Petit Fleur (OK you’re right!) and it’s one of...
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We had one of those “spotting a MRY piece on TV” moments this week….. my daughter Matilda was watching Episode 1 Series 3 of Dexter and something she saw jerked her out of the fictional landscape she was inhabiting……it was a Medium Jug in New...
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Mary Rose recently made some over-sized Breakfast Cups for Tearoom and Teekult in Switzerland…here they are above in this confetti design and look stunning. Since it was the first set of these oversize cups we’d seen for a while, memories were stirred of previous incarnations...
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The lockdowns and enforced isolation of the last 12 months have been quite a significant “life event”…. Every minute we have the chance to compare our old lives with our new, and the thing I miss most about the new has to be the little...
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Mary Rose has had a lot of success recently with stunning designs painted onto a plain iridescent background…. The sea of mother of pearl seems to emphasise the bright colours of any design and make them all the more attractive. Vintage Floral, Gold New Rose...
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Our last newsletter in November featured a photo of Mary Rose’s new “Gondola Bowl” with its curvy shape, beaded rim and face design. One customer was so enthusiastic about the bowl that she asked for a vase in the same theme. Clearly that request is...
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If you can ever come to terms with the possibility that you may die, (I find it impossible) then there are all kinds of morbid things that you could be planning that may not feel morbid at all if they involved something deliberately fun. What...
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Exciting new pieces often come straight out of other people’s imaginations…. They just need a touch of MaryRoseification. A customer of Miks in Wichita Falls dreamed up the idea of a narrow but long bowl with quite exacting dimensions 6inches wide by 24inches long. She...
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