Brass, ceramic and glass

Brass is where I started. I ran a brass manufacturing business before I designed anything, so it is the material I know best, from the factory floor to the finished piece. My brass pieces include cabinet knobs and backplates, door hardware and a door knocker. I finish brass in polished, satin, rose and antique brass, and in bronze or chrome plating.

• Polished brass knobs and backplates
• Snail door knocker
• Yellow ceramic door knobs

Ceramic is about glaze. Reactive and speckled glazes move in the kiln, so no two pieces are quite the same. I design ceramic cabinet knobs, door knobs and wall hooks, and develop each glaze and colour directly with the factory.

• Daisy wall hook
• Scallop shell hook
• Scalloped ceramic knob
• Yellow ceramic door knobs
• Oval knob and handle
• Initial coat hooks

Glass gives colour and light at the same time. My glass cabinet knobs are made in clear glass and soft tints, set on brass finish bases.

• Rose glass cabinet knob

Two materials are shaping my next pieces. Marble, for its weight and veining, set alongside brass. And bronze hardware, where I am learning how different patinas form and how each one deepens as it is handled, so the finish becomes part of the design.