Antipode Jones

Most island designs in standard kitchens range from depth of 600 millimetres which is quite shallow, to 1,200 millimetres. This size will depend on whether your island will be used from both sides – as a dining area as well as a food-preparation area. You also need to consider the material you will use for the surface. If you are wanting slab material, such as natural stone you might have to decide on the placement of a seam if the island durface is longer or wider than the stone format.

In this space we are designing a custom island that is hardworking both in a practical and design sense: work-table, buffet surface for large gatherings and demonstrations, storage to replace upper cabinets and bold enough to visually anchor a large (vaulted) volume space.

Let us know what you think!

Antipode (ænˈtɪp.ə.di) Jones Studio
Interior Design & Project Management

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Perfect for the large dining room where inclusivity and community are celebrated. The Superellipse™ table is the result of the collaboration between Swedish designer Bruno Mathsson and Danish mathematician Piet Hein. With its elegant metal legs and its harmonious proportions, the table became a great classic of Scandinavian design, combining functionalism and sophisticated aesthetics.
The Superellipse™ table was inspired by the designer Piet Hein’s solution to a traffic problem at Sergels Torg in Stockholm: a super elliptical roundabout.

The ingenious shape was conceived in his mathematical mind. The “Superellipse” is constructed of a curve that lies between the ellipse and the rectangle and thus, the Super-Elliptical table can be seen as a democratic table where everyone has an equal position: “inclusive social gatherings”

Matarazzo Oro. Cedar Ofuro. Soaking in Winter.

Fumed Eucalyptus

Contrast deep, tonal, natural wood-grain with the warm, creamy painted formality of panelling. Master Bed.

Moody Palette

Espresso and Nougat. Nickel and To***co.
Warm palette for a restoration.

Designing a Mail Room

Mailboxes should look good but also must be fit for purpose. Secure. Accessible. Handsome addition to an entry foyer.

When I was in Turin, I took a taxi ride out to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. It is a stunning setting. A decaying fortress inset with massive slabs of plate glass. I stood mesmerised by Novecento (Maurizio Cattelan), 1997. Horse in taxidermy with sling.
The past held in suspension - both the building and the art. Death, decay, testament and rebuilding. The depressing and inspiring circle of the human experience .

Stainless. Timber. Stone.

Leaning in to a small space by embracing liquorice & vanilla. Dark stone bath, black glass mosaic floors, micro cement and a little nickel for jewelry.

Steel Doors

I’ve been contemplating coloured steel doors as an alternative to black. Jean Prouvé was fond of painted steel.
Prouvé did not like to cover natural wood grains or non corrosive materials with opaque colour, but as steel is corrosive, he created his own palette of colours for it, drawn from nature. My favourite colours Rouge Corsair, Terre Cuite.

“Made primarily of sheet steel, many of Jean Prouvé’s designs found their way into homes, offices, schools and universities. In addition to the fact that the raw material required protection from corrosion, he also understood that it would be enhanced by warm colour treatment. Prouvé therefore designed a range of colours that evolved according to the projects and their contexts, and that reflects the subtle nuances of nature or an artist’s palette.

Each colour was named after a source of inspiration, such as a particular plant, animal or artist. The individual tones seem to be handpicked from nature itself with a soft appearance that blends into any interior”

Plastic Fantastic

Unpacked a playful delivery.
Unexpected mix of materials. Timber, cotton, hand blown glass and ..ABS. Retro styling. Repurposing a bar cart as bedside table.

A successful kiln day is always a happy day.

Facet foot

Set of 8 small faceted foot ring bowls. Australian Porcelain. Gary Healey bespoke ash glazes. Handmade by

Family in Green. Raspberry swirl.

Oribe glaze; a glassy transparent green glaze with copper as the primary colorant.

Oribe glazed porcelain mezze bowls. Little Companions.

Bespoke glazes by . Australian Porcelain Clay by . Bowls by

織部焼　-オリベ　Oribe ware.

Lillypad bowl with Oribe glaze from Gary Healey bespoke glazes. By in Australian Porcelain.

A very Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year.

Ash Glaze

Ash glaze uses washed ashes from wood (or other organic material like straw). They can vary, as the chemistry of different organic ash types varies dramatically. But also there is high variability for different batches of the same wood.

Wood ash contains high amounts of calcium and low amounts of alumina and silica. However, the silica and alumina in the clay body can fuse with a thin layer of ash glaze to make a glaze that’s harder than imaginable without much of those ingredients needing to be directly added to the glaze. However due to the afore mentioned variability it’s not a glaze constituent a potter can depend on from batch to batch. Every single time wood ash is collected, even if it is from the same wood of the same tree, each batch will differ from the last. A lab analysis would be necessary for each batch of ash, so that the potter could alter each one of them with oxides, in order for each batch to be as identical as possible. The variability is indeed part of the beauty.

Clay.

Pretty Mud. It never ceases to amazing and excite me; this idea that a hunk of soft malleable porcelain mud can evolve as a thing of beauty. Thrown, soaked, dried, turned with blades, baked in extreme heat, dunked in glaze.. and then a delicate vessel emerges. Functional, strong. Resilient. The same material but different.

Simple Servers.

Gateaux Edition. Buy nice things. Eat cake. Or something like that. Vegan Spiced Pear Cake by

Little ones

Quiet little bowls. For Thanksgiving they held mustards, relish, cranberry sauce and whipped cream.

Thanks Giving.

Today I am soo grateful for my beautiful Children and my amazing 🧔🏽‍♂️. Soo very thankful to wake up to a world with them in it.

Oil Pastel

I’ve been doodling. Trying out abstract expression.