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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When I set about creating a range of kitchen pottery made in Stoke-on-Trent thirty years ago my mind was teeming with ideas for the shapes; I had a bur geoning plan for the technique I planned to master for the decoration of these functional wares and I simply assumed that I would have no trouble producing as many patterns as I needed to make each season fly. It’s such a strange feeling looking back and realising just how utterly unready I was for what lay ahead. But ignorance enthusiasm and huge energy coupled with a very pressing need to generate an income for myself all combined with the input of a procession of people who have worked with me over the years to turn my plans into reality. Emma Bridgewater shapes are distinctive and I’m proud of them and I continue to add to the range steadily but the demand for a stream-no a river! – of new surface designs is an unavoidable undodge able commercial reality. And I think that maybe I would have failed this challenge dramatically dismally if Matthew had not appeared tanned sockless in tennis shoes and a slightly stained but definitely stylish double- breasted suit down the aisle of the trade fair where I was accustomed to showing each new collection. That was a gift fair called Top Drawer which at the time was held in the old Derry & Toms building in Kensington High Street. It was itself a new venture creative and informal; it provided a springboard for a number of start-ups in the early 1980s and the organisers were very kind to me. My stand was always noisy and busy as my instinct was to throw a party so there was always plenty to eat and drink and customers often had to fight their way in through my enthusiastic friends and family there in hordes to provide moral support. Matt liked the look of me and my business and he laid siege. My assistant Antonia immediately spotted that he was the one and she arranged with him that I’d meet him for lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club. It went well she was right and we were married ten months later. (MP)