Building Bridges

Heath Ceramics, founded in 1944, grew into an unconventional amalgam of craft, design and manufacturing, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated, slighted and generally misunderstood workshops to emerge from California’s studio pottery movement. Here, photographer Laurie Frankel shows us stand-out work from the past half-century while in print Mija Riedel looks at what makes the company tick.