LUCIE RIE (MODERN WOMEN ARTISTS) (EIDERDOWN BOOKS) (HB)

From early promise as a ceramic artist in Europe, Lucie Rie found herself on the verge of obscurity in Britain and spent her wartime ‘cabbage-days’ creating buttons to make ends meet. But by the 1950s, her intentionally flawed and experimental glazed designs had become popular British domestic wares. Her signature sgraffito technique and later ‘flared-lip’ vases are now among her most recognisable work.