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I didn't think much of the first 3 bowl until I read that they were porcelain. WOW!

I'll say yea to the watermelon bowl.

everyone needs a glass bowl topped ladder

Yeah, that's what I like to have around when I'm paint those 10 ft ceilings.

*painting

Why does the fact that it's in porcelain 'wow' you. I mean I love her work but if you know anything about ceramic art, you'll know that porcelain isn't the end all/ be all. It is beautiful and can be difficult to use but sometimes not that difficult at all, especially when using molds and slabs like Robinson uses.

I guess I'm curious why folks are so inclined to be wooed by porcelain when beautiful work can come from many different types of clay bodies... the quality of a ceramist's work doesn't depend on what kind of clay they are using but what they make of it.

jesse lu..i think what comicgeek meant when he/she said "wow" to the bowls being made out of porcelain was that they look so real as in not made out of crocheted or knit fiber that it was a surprise to find they were a ceramic ( not specific to which type)..i too had the same reaction.

oops, i meant.....as in MADE out of crocheted fiber...

I love your comments Jesse, but I expect only ceramicists will really understand them. I'm falling in love with the beauty of grog right now.

But, Comicgeek might have been expressing shock that they are not knitted and made of clay in general.

The way porcelain gets praised, a layman to clay might not know its just a special type of clay and think it is some cosmic substance!

i'm with comicgeek & mkw...
i'm LOVING the porcelain bowls!

I love the watermellon bowls, and the shakespearean wallpaper seems fun for a writer's office or a powder room!

I don't see any major design fails. I like seeing a big retail chain working with artists and taking the risk to sell less commercial pieces. The only item that's really impractical is the ladder/vase, but it's interesting.

I like all of them except the ladder/vase, which I don't really understand. I LOVE the blue/white vase and am kind of crazy about the Shakespeare wallpaper. Yes, please.

As a knitter, I'd love to have one of the first three bowls next to my favorite chair.

love anthro. but actually, i find their standard stuff much more appealing than any of these items. i did a post not too long ago on some wonderful folding chairs that i think trump all these items:

http://honeyliving.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-fold.html

Ugh, the handwriting on the Shakespearean wallpaper is a fail in my book. Love the concept, but I wouldn't a dime for it unless the handwriting could beat mine (and not many can, I must say).

"wouldn't [give] a dime for it"

Sheesh, it's a Monday.