blue heaven

“There are no facts, only interpretations”

Friedrich Nietzsche (notebooks 1886-87)

It is all described in detail how Piet started turning pots, bowls and platters and in what circumstances he made pottery his profession and art, taught in between and briefly played industrialist (1991). It was the last century... 

Today we have to understand that our Sonja bags (1967) are no longer made in Holland, our classic plates are no longer produced at Royal Boch, Limoges hardly has anything to do ... The European porcelain sector has been in crisis for years and one wonders if we have forgotten the notion of sustainability and tradition.

Fortunately, the appeal for the local and specific has tightened and been promoted a bit in recent years. Piet has also found that slow food and quick food, chefs' haute cuisine and mum's kitchen, television recipes and N'jam TV perches demand new presentations, signs and packaging. Many efforts and innovations later and without any sense of trends or the new desires of the digital natives, the blue square classic Stockmans sign (born as Modus Vivendi) about 20 x 20 x 2 cm has remained standing all these years. Notwithstanding my legendary aversion to traditional blue, I have had 28 (the number of days in the moon's orbit!) of those plates for more than a quarter of a century. Hundreds of people have eaten from them, I never broke even one and everyone always proved me right when I insisted that the food not only looked much prettier but also tasted much more ‘square’!

Thank you Piet.

Moniek E. Bucquoye, fan of the first hour