Edmund de Waal

Making

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal

Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009

Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.

This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism

- Edmund de Waal