Local industry

Josiah Wedgwood’s creative spirit transformed British pottery, and his pursuit of beauty and quality still shapes generations of potters today

I’m on the edge of a seaside town, confronting sand. Fine sand, suitable for making sandcastles with very precise detailing. The sand, though, has come not from a beach near Hastings (the Sussex town

TIFFANY & CO., Ralph Lauren, the Houses of Parliament, the London Olympics 2012 and the Windsors – just some of the prestigious brands and events Hilary Green has designed glassware for. And yet she r

Timeless bathroom style can be found at Lefroy Brooks, one of Britain’s leading manufacturers of luxury bathroom products. Inspired by the Edwardian era to the present day, its eight distinct collecti

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

Once you have noticed the texture on a hand-thrown flowerpot, it’s impossible to use factory made again, says Tiffany Daneff, after a visit to Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire