Blog posts, top tens & news — john clappison

Hornsea's had a redo!   Belfast brand Magpie has teamed up with the famous mid-century pottery design studio Hornsea to reboot the iconic 1967 animal designs created by John Clappison, chief designer at Hornsea. This fantastic collaboration brings your favourite Hornsea designs back to life by putting a contemporary spin on some 1960s classics. Magpie have redrawn the instantly recognisable mid-century design cats, owls and birds from the original illustrations archived in the Hornsea Museum and created new ceramic moulds for cruets sets and money boxes, glazing them using authentic Hornsea colours of the period. Hornsea Potteries was founded in 1949 by brothers Colin and Desmond Rawson....