1720 | Crafts

2024

2024 will be the year of big collaborations to support crafts and individual craftspeople in Germany, the UK and beyond.

We took this picture back in 2017 at Keflavík Airport, Iceland. The prominent placement of traditional craft in its modern interpretation struck a chord with us. Now, nearly 7 years later, it is the perfect image to guide our path for 2024.

Big things ahead...

What we do

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Developing limited edition handcrafted pieces to raise public awareness for endangered craft

Here we are exhibiting chairs at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden (State Playhouse Dresden) made just south of Dresden in an area with an over 400-year unbroken chairmaking tradition .

Image by Sebastian Hoppe

Featured artisans and ateliers

1720 celebrates crafts.

Here is a small selection of makers and studios we were invited to meet to learn about their personal crafts stories, their passion and the cultural heritage they are helping to preserve.

Others featured here inspire us through their work and share our passion for crafts.

Olaf Stoy (DE)

Artist - porcelain, graphic, words

Olaf's work is humourous and thoughtful, exceptionally crafted. Each piece is evocative in its own way, sharing its unique soul through its shape and material. Olaf breathes life into porcelain.

Horst Kontak (DE)

Artist - wood

Exceptionel woodturner.
Mentee of master wood sculptor Lüder Baier.

Maarten Vrolijk (NL)

Artist - glass, paintings, drawings, ceramics, textiles

Perhaps best known for his Sakura glass vessels with their outgrowth of coloured glass fragments.

Peter Polak (DE)

Atelier - upholstery

Family business, in the 3rd generation for over 100 years, founded in 1914. Known for Their high-quality upholstering work on new designs and for bringing old, treasured pieces back to life.

Daisuke Iguchi (JP)

Artist - pottery

Works of art rthat esemble artefacts of bygone eras.

Image: (c) Daisuke Iguchi

Florence Coenraets (BE)

Artist - feathers

Feather paintings, that are vivid, colourful, intriguing, and surprising and can hardly be described in words.

Image: (c) Florence Coenraets

Amy Cushing (UK)

Artist - glass

Mouth-blown glass combined with kiln-formed glass has undergone various firing cycles and cold work steps. The finials of these sizeable and heavy pieces are multi-layered paintings of patterns, coloured tones, and hues.

Image: (c) Amy Cushing

Oriel Zinaburg (IL/UK)

Artist - clay

Image:
L O T # 234
Folded Organic Form, 2022
Technique: Press-mold Hand/slab building
Materials: Mixed Stoneware, Glaze
Dimensions (approx): 60(H) x 42(W) x 42(D)cm
(c) Oriel Zinaburg

Edmund de Waal (UK)

Artist - porcelain, words

Signs & Wonders is a collection of 425 vessels on a red metal shelf floating above the cornice, appearing to be held in space in the dome of the V&A ceramic gallery.

Hamish Mackie (UK)

Julien Feller (BE/USA)

Artist - wood

3-dimensional lace, carved out of boxwood.

TROMPE-L'ŒIL SCULPTURAL WALL PIECE (45 cm x 45 cm x 5 cm), by JULIEN FELLER
Carved boxwood and gold leaf
Commission works only.

Image: © Julien Feller

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