Limited edition
Artists Buttons
In support of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Edmund de Waal, along with Ai Weiwei, Jonathan Anderson, Rana Begum, Antony Gormley, Callum Innes, Jennifer Lee, Cornelia Parker, Vicken Parsons and Caroline Walker, have created a limited edition sets of buttons.
The project draws inspiration from the exhibition, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, recently at Kettle’s Yard and now on view until January 2024 at the Holburne Museum in Bath. In 1938, Lucie Rie fled her home in Vienna for London to escape the Nazi persecution of Jewish people. During the war, unable to get a licence to make pots, Rie turned to making ceramic buttons for the fashion industry, experimenting on a miniature scale with new forms and coloured glazes.
