This week we’re revisiting our favourite tales from 2024, like this one:
Arnold d’Alger ferrets out porcelain dishes sitting in lonely stacks and updates them. The graphic designer makes use of gold glaze that he applies by hand with superb paint brushes and ink pens to present his dusty finds new dazzle. The upcycled wares can be found at Bazar d’Alger, Arnold’s store website, and by fee: he’s joyful to works with items from his personal assortment in addition to prospects’ personal plates and platters.
Arnold beforehand designed visible identities and did illustration work. Uninterested in solitary days at his laptop, he signed up for lessons in porcelain adorning and silk portray at Paris Ateliers, a terrific place, he tells us, for inexpensive intro programs within the utilized arts. Assigned to herald some plates to improve, Arnold turned to Leboncoin, the French equal of Craigslist, and located an inexpensive trove of grandmotherly castoffs ready to be rediscovered.
Arnold now has an atelier in his residence within the 10ème with cabinets and cabinets of second-hand French crockery. He does his personal adorning right here and hosts workshops: contributors embellish plates à la Arnold. Have some unloved, hand-me-down dishware that might use zhooshing? Come contemplate the probabilities.
Pictures courtesy of Bazar d’Alger (@bazardalger), until famous.
Embellished Classic Tableware
