Pottery is making a comeback (at least according to the style writers of the New York Times and my Instagram feed).
Stephen Lally, who’s been working as a potter for 35 years, creates mugs, teapots, pitchers and other food- and drink-related wares out of a studio behind his Del Ray home.
Lally’s mugs and bowls aren’t perfectly round; instead, they subtly jut in and back out. at shape “relates to the hand better,” says Lally. “In some ways, a Styrofoam bowl works as well as a ceramic one,” but “there’s got to be more there than just ‘Can it work?’ What I like to do is to play with the shape and play with the architecture of it in ways that I think that are visually but also tactfully interesting.”
And, in turn, makes ice cream bingeing all the more enjoyable. // Find Stephen Lally’s pottery at Friends of Carlyle House Historic Park 2016 Annual Herb and Craft Sale on April 23 and the Torpedo Factory’s Scope Gallery Flowery Language exhibit from April 4-May 1
( April 2016 )
