Half-and-half Chinese/European traditional porcelain designs

Ctrlzak design studio's "Ceramix" collection fuses Chinese and European porcelain traditions, creating motley half-and-half plates, bowls, vases and the like.

Ceramix (via Geisha Asobi)

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MelSkunk

Yeah, these are really ugly. I was hoping that someone was clever enough to print half-and-half PATTERNS on the plates, not just make these, which I might add I see a lot of variations on in craft shows locally, so it’s not even a unique idea.
Anonymous

i agree w lazy and a bit rubbish,

check: http://www.aestheticsabotage.com/

really nice update on the willow pattern, i got these for my mum x
Pipenta

I like the betta. I went poking around their site and found a picture of some cups on the site, shown from a top view. In one cup is a red betta, in the other a blue one. I thought, at first, this was a decorative detail. But no, alas, it is simply a way to showcase the cup. Don’t get me wrong, they’re nice cups and all. Just, I like the bettas better.
dainel

It would look much better if it was a single design, rendered in chinese/european style on each half, and it blends seamlessly from one to the other at the middle. These looks like two random plates chop in half and then glued together.
Kurt

Yin-yang Chinese/European plates would be cooler.
Bahumat

*sigh* I’m a huge fan of beautiful china like this, and look on in envy at the lovely china cabinets of my grandmothers and their friends and peers.

These half-bastard plates are really ugly. There’s an artistry to good china, and these half-plate designs are no different than any other half-cut canvas.

Is there artistic merit to it? Sure, fine.
Is it interesting to look at? Sure, as a spectacle.

But taking two beautiful objects and making them into two ugly objects doesn’t thrill me. Boo.
Elijah Meeks

I’m afraid I have to a agree. It’s a nice idea, and individually the designs on these plates are beautiful. But the Two-Face thing is just lazy and ugly.
Anita

mmm. Ok, but I like Jason Miller’s Seconds better – challenges idea of “seconds” as inferior products.
Boba Fett Diop

This is especially interesting considering that Delftware (the blue patterned stuff) was originally an imitation of Chinese designs featuring European scenes produced specifically for the European market.

I’m not keen on the execution however. This would have worked better on a single plate glazed with a European design on one half and a Chinese design on the other.
IronEdithKidd

Fugly.