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Selected writings

Front cover of Lucie Rie by Isabella Smith, published by Eiderdown Books

Portrait of Michael Perry. Photo: Megan Eagles / The Observer

Lucie Rie and Hans Coper c. 1958. Photo Jane Coper. Copyright the estates of the artists and the Lucie Rie and Hans Coper Foundation

The Ledbury Armchair, Red, by The Marchmont Workshop. Photo by Sam Cooper

Carol McNicoll (1974) Credit: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Still from Four For See Beauties (2022), Laure Prouvost

Gordon Baldwin, undated photograph. Courtesy of the Baldwin family

A minotaur’s-head fireplace by Ron Gittens at Ron’s Place, Birkenhead. Photo: courtesy Wirral Arts and Culture Community Land Trust

Portrait of Elizabeth Fritsch. Image © Elizabeth Fritsch Estate

Vase with flaring lip, c. 1972, Lucie Rie. Photo: Phillips

Two Cats by a Fire, c. 1970s, Mary Berwick. Photo: Rachel Deakin

Chamber pot containing the bust of Napoleon (c. 1805). Photo: Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove

John Allen in his London studio. Photo: Jay Goldmark

Florian Gadsby. Photo: Miro Lovejoy Teplitzky

Interior view of Atelier des Lumières, Paris. © Culturespaces/C. de la Motte Rouge

Front cover of Apollo magazine, November 2023, featuring a kimono from Karun Thakar's collection

Gillian Lowndes at her first solo show, Bristol Guild, 1963. Photo: courtesy Gillian Lowndes Archive

‘Parade’ pillowcase, Kalotaszeg, ��1920-60. Photo by Conradin Frei

The potter Lucie Rie at home. Photo by Jane Coper, copyright Jane Coper / estate of the artist

The Dreamachine in action. Photo: David Levine

The potter Shoji Hamada at the wheel. Photo courtesy the artist's estate

Front cover of Crafts issue 295 Autumn Winter 2022, featuring Jay Blades

Tenmoku vase by Phil-Rogers. Photo courtesy Goldmark Gallery

Prudence, a porcelain massager made by Fine Bone Ltd. Photo courtesy Ffion Harman

© 2026 by Isabella Smith

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