Wednesday, 23 October 2013

David Pye bowl, more fungus, cake and thread ...

Sarah winding threads for kits

Fungi
Field mushrooms and Parasols

Field mushrooms in David Pye bowl

Harvest

Autumn sunshine took Sarah and I outside to wind thread for the kits, drink tea and eat some delicious shop bought custard tarts, the best possible indulgence. As fast as she makes the thread bundles for the kits, they seem to disappear. The Christmas orders are coming in and we are going full pelt. Also a photo of some field mushrooms picked that morning locally, with one or two parasol mushroom thrown in too. They are rather artistically placed in a wonderful hand carved wooden bowl made by David Pye
which he gave to my parents back in RCA days. He was Prof of Furniture Design from 1964-1974 and I remember his collection of moths and butterflies in beautiful museum drawers when we went to visit him at his home in Wadhurst. Loved drawers ever since. The bowl reflects the radiating gills of the mushroom so beautifully ... here is another bowl very similar to it. I treasure this bowl, much loved, much used. The dressing when using it for a hearty salad runs obligingly down the ridges, easy to scoop again for another dousing ...
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3 comments:

  1. Trudy29 October 2013 at 11:10

    A beautiful bowl. Sun, threads and custard tarts, sounds lovely.

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  2. Penny3 November 2013 at 13:29

    This bowl is lovely! I have several bowls in my studio - so handy to drop those teeny tiny collectibles that I seem to accrue. The custard sound just too good!

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  3. Unknown4 November 2015 at 08:30

    Hello, I would like to have one picture of David Pye bowl in my book, Wood, design and tradition. Look here: https://www.artforum.sk/katalog/5474/drevo-dizajn-a-tradicia-wood-design-and-tradit
    But it is problem to get it in printable size. Can you help me?

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