Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase for the table I picked the book

I picked the book

simple gestures

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee

and bands of pattern around neck and base

this one features a wonderful graphic black and umber bird and fish design by Johanne Gerber

Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase for the table I picked the bookThis hand thrown mushroom shaped ikebana vase is one of my very favorite objects ever, a wonderfully unusual, whimsical yet functional sculpture that could inspire and host all sorts of fantastic ikebana arrangements. Only recently did I learn through my mother's sleuthing of pottery marks that it was made by Michael Cohen, a studio potter born in Boston in 1936, educated at Mass Art, and currently based in Amherst, Mass, where he continues to have a