MUG'GED_ f. EC(H)O PARK POTTERY

A few weeks ago we headed over to Echo Park Pottery to color mugs for LA artist Peter Shire and The Ecology Center.  Having missed the mug making session the previous week, we met Mr. Shire for the first time and spent a Sunday hard at work dipping a few hundred mugs in glaze.  Mugs are one of Echo Park Pottery's staple items, and the mugs we dipped are now on sale at the studio of their making and the Eco Center's store.  Nearly a dozen of them made it home with Lori and I!

The mugs are a rolled slab construction with variously pointy and half round handles that are surprisingly comfortable to hold.  They are glazed in stripes of yellow, green, pink, blue, and brown with white rings around the lip.

Click through for some process shots.

Timeline

Wall Test

Dumbbox Display

Here, classic produce packing boxes are recreated in fresh wood and used as a very simple means of display. Their simplicity belies a certain versatility, and their lack of handles keeps them off the farm.

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Mountains to the Sea

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The Ecology Center

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Anatomy of a Produce Box

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Design Room/The Ecology Center

Design Room


We're putting together a timeline/educational/inspirational display in The Ecology Center's design studio. The room itself is an educational space that accommodates a variety of uses including teaching on a blackboard, workshops, luncheons, hanging out and design consulting. The space is intended as a studio where in the future design/construction/landscape/sustainabilty professionals will have office hours to consult local residents on private projects. The room is in a house from the 1870s on one of Orange County's last working farms (South Coast Farms), the house being the domain of The Ecology Center.