BAUHAUS: Colour as a language

A scarlet red plate beside an ultramarine bowl creates a different composition from the same plate beside sky blue. With BAUHAUS, colour gives each object a role and lets that role change as the pieces move. The table becomes a composition you can keep revising.

Our palette brings together ultramarine, scarlet red, yellow and sky blue, with the warm white ceramic body left visible between areas of glaze. Strong contrasts connect different forms without requiring every piece to match.

The Bauhaus brought art, craft and design into a shared field of experimentation. Studies in form, material and colour were part of a larger question: how could design shape the objects and environments of daily life?

BAUHAUS at Pottery & Poetry takes this connection as a point of reference. These four glazes are our own studio selection, rather than a reconstruction of one historical Bauhaus palette. Their relationships are explored through objects made to hold food, pass around a table and become part of everyday use.

The colour fields are direct, while the forms retain the small differences of making by hand. A rim rises unevenly; a brushstroke ends before the edge; glossy glaze catches the light differently across a shallow curve. These details give each object its own character within a recognisable family.

Layer plates of different sizes, repeat one colour across a place setting or let a single contrasting bowl shift the balance. The collection offers a vocabulary; the arrangement remains personal.