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Finds: Natural Settings

Ceramist Brenda Quinn creates the perfect plate

By Emily Gagne

Photograph by Brett Thomas

For summer entertaining, we’re stashing the gilded china in favor of ceramist Brenda Quinn’s earthy-pretty tableware. A former landscaper, Quinn plucks inspiration for her free-form etchings straight from the garden — honeysuckle, a daisy’s petals, even the humble carrot.

Though the King of Prussia native and Tyler School of Art grad is now based in New York, you can score her much-dished-about pieces at The Clay Studio in Old City. Look for tiles with bold Middle Eastern-inspired patterns, pitchers engraved with twisty vines, all manner of dinner-party musts and, coming soon, sweet elephant and bird designs.

$15-$300 at The Clay Studio, 137-139 North 2nd Street, 215-925-3453,
theclaystudio.org; brendaquinn.com.

Originally published in Philadelphia Home, Summer 2008
 

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