Featured Designer - Joanna Davies

Is there always a story behind every design? Not quite for Joanna who graduated from the Royal College of Arts with a Master degree in Ceramics and Glass. To Joanna, each creation is the result of her constant emotive and intuitive enquiry process. Under her brand name Jo Davies, Joanna made her first debut at the London New Designers Exhibition 2002, and subsequently held solo exhibitions at IL Bordello, Bristol and Portsmouth Arts Centre.

Joanna’s bold attempts at reinventing and injecting Rococo style in modern day home wares make each piece of work a visual feast. A common style in the 18th Century French Art and Interior Design, Rococo is a combination of the French Rocaille and Italian Baroque style. Contrast is prevalent in each of her creation where we see a perfect blend of either textured surfaces or sharp and blunt edges. Joanna dedicates each piece of her work to famous female figures remembered for their exuberant styles, like Joan Rivers, Imelda Marcos and Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Imelda light is Joanna’s new creation. A unique addition to any contemporary home, this elegant wall light consists of loose folds that allow light to pass through forming abstract shadows. Imelda is named after Imelda Marcos, the controversial and influential political figure of the Philippines.

Each piece of Zsa Zsa vase is hand crafted in porcelain such that the loose folds allows individual expression in floral arrangement. Suppose it is no mystery which personality Zsa Zsa vase is named after?

The Imelda light, Zsa Zsa vase and the rest of Joanna’s collection will be on sale on WeFew come June when our online store opens.