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PORCELAIN LIGHTING, FURNITURE & OBJECTS made by hand in our atelier. We airfreight worldwide. Showroom by appointment. Coming soon @pb_daylesford

A sneaky after-hours peek inside the new PB showro

A sneaky after-hours peek inside the new PB showroom last night.

A Piece of PB History Available to Own Today we o

A Piece of PB History Available to Own

Today we offer our one-off PB bar for sale. Six years ago, almost to the day, 8 May, Porcelain Bear held a lavish launch event to officially open our first showroom in Derby St Collingwood. In attendance were 300 guests, many of them among Australia’s leading design professionals; maybe we had the pleasure of your company on that evening.

With delicious gourmet treats on offer, the DJ played chilled house music while guests socialised and viewed several new furniture and lighting series in our newly designed space. At the PB bar, the espresso martinis, wine, beer and spirits were free flowing all evening.

The bar itself was made specifically for that launch event in 2016 and is now being made available to purchase. It’s one of a kind item and is fully clad in our porcelain Metro tiles with a porcelain and leather lamp from our Cloche family integrated into the bar top at the corner.

This piece could be used as a bar but, possibly with a little modification to the rear, would also make an excellent boutique or shop counter, waiter’s station in a café or restaurant or a reception desk facade for an office or professional suite.

Inside the 24kt gold lined Cloche pendant.. the li

Inside the 24kt gold lined Cloche pendant.. the light emitted is warm and welcoming.

PB’s I-O-N series Bident luminaire, this one fea

PB’s I-O-N series Bident luminaire, this one features our aged brass/bronze finish, is now installed in our new showroom space in Church St Richmond. #openingsoon

Pic by one of the best, @derek_swalwell

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PB’s original Cloche pendant used throughout the

PB’s original Cloche pendant used throughout the new @vocomelbournecentral in the guest rooms and in the public spaces and reception areas. Lined with 24kt gold, our custom Cloche pendants were installed en masse for maximum effect.

Voco is Intercontinental Hotel Group’s new sexy boutique hotel. We can’t wait to visit.
Interior by @suede.interiors
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Form follows function, the PB Cloche pendant is ab

Form follows function, the PB Cloche pendant is about simplicity, classic proportions that will sit easily with any interior style and it’s about pure function.

For this project, we worked with @fionalynchoffice during 2013, nine years ago. This project was the reason we added the XL Cloche to our range. For this restaurant, Prix Fixe, the table was the stage lit beautifully by our XL Cloche. Hung quite low, the effect is dramatic, the mood relaxed and sophisticated and the dining experience was superb. The magnificent food prepared by Philippa Sibley took centre stage and never fell short of expectations.

Pictured here are Australian food royalty, two of our country’s finest chefs, Stephanie Alexander @growcookeat and our very talented friend, Philippa Sibley @ps_take3.

Sadly the restaurant is no longer there.

More porcelain polishing porn. These are finer por

More porcelain polishing porn. These are finer porcelain pellets used on our more delicate pieces. There have been a few breakages so we’re learning how best to keep the failure rate low, zero being the aim.

A little more petite than our Metro Butch dining t

A little more petite than our Metro Butch dining table is our Metro Burly Café table in gloss black porcelain with nero maquina marble top and foot. Suited to indoor or outdoor use, it’s sturdy, weather proof and beautiful. Here it’s seen with an original Shaker chair that belonged to and was used by the Reeds, imagine the people and the conversations that have occupied this chair! Here, our table is posed elegantly in a corner in the beautiful Heide Cottage @heidemoma as part of @ngvmelbourne #melbournedesignweek2021. It was a pleasure and a privilege to have been selected by Heide MOMA to stage our intervention in this, the very historically significant original home of John and Sunday Reed. Pic by @haydncattach 🖤

Dining in style at the soon to open @vocomelbourne

Dining in style at the soon to open @vocomelbournecentral . Lined with 24kt gold, our custom Cloche pendants were installed en masse for maximum effect.

PB’s original Cloche pendant used throughout the new @vocomelbournecentral in the guest rooms and en masse in the public spaces and the reception areas. Voco is Intercontinental Hotel Group’s new sexy boutique hotel. We can’t wait to visit.
Interior by @suede.interiors
@ihghotels

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PB features on front and back covers!! Not only a

PB features on front and back covers!!

Not only are we grateful to @australianceramics for covering the 60th edition of The Journal of Australian Ceramics magazine, front and back covers with two beautiful images of one of our Polar consoles, exhibited at #melbournedesignweek 2020, there’s also a substantial multi page article on what we’re up to inside.

In another article in this anniversary edition, a story on the heritage restoration of the almost fifty year old Michael Kitson mural at @monash_uni, Caulfield campus. The Bears, Gregory and Anthony, are both Monash alumni so we think it’s a great fit that we return to our old Uni to be part of the project to bring this magnificent piece of retro-futuristic art back to its original brilliance.

The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 61 No 1, April 2022
RRP $20 M1 SHOP VIA LINKTREE
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS 1962 - 2022
FOCUS: FUNCTION & ART
THE VESSEL
SANDY LOCKWOOD
TAKING A DESIGN APPROACH
ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL
Editor Vicki Grima says: What a milestone this is! This
issue marks 60 years of The Journal of Australian
Ceramics/Pottery in Australia.
When discussing the words 'function' and 'art' for this
issue of JAC, we discussed their limitations in defining the
ceramics we make. Would we be better to use words such
as 'beauty', 'production' and/or 'objects'? On these pages
we chose to consider the crossover between art and
design with Penny Craswell's article on production
ceramics in architectural settings, then jump forward to
hear from 15 makers with their thoughts on the vessel
that object that defines a space within, a space which may
be functional or symbolic, useful or observed, enclosed or
expressive. As always, we squeeze in as much as we can
about the diversity of Australian ceramics.
Editor: Vicki Grima
Editorial Assistants: Bride Moran & Montessa Maack
Graphic Design: Astrid Wehling

Pics by our favorite photographer, @haydncattach

A very unique custom Cloche pendant project we com

A very unique custom Cloche pendant project we completed in Hobart. The pendants were suspended from chinky steel frames which varied in their dimensions but the Cloche shades were set at a consistent height using slimline metal rods rather than electrical cables.

PB’s original Cloche pendant used throughout the

PB’s original Cloche pendant used throughout the new @vocomelbournecentral in the guest rooms and en masse in the public spaces and the reception areas. Voco is Intercontinental Hotel Group’s new sexy boutique hotel. We can’t wait to visit.
Interior by @suede.interiors
@ihghotels

#vocoHotels
#vocoMelbourneCentral
#SustainableHotel
#MelbourneHotel
#visitvictoria
#SeeAustralia
#VisitMelbourne
#OpeningSoon
#Giveawaycomingsoon

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