Max Lamb & Gemma Holt

This week The Edit features London based creative couple Gemma Holt & Max Lamb. Gemma works with Martino Gamper and publishing company Dent-De-Leone, as well as having her own personal design and art practice. Max is a designer who makes distinctive furniture with an emphasis on materiality and the hand crafted. We spoke to Max & Gemma about their favourite pieces from the Everyday Needs range.

1. Japanese rice straw broom

The pattern of our Cornish granite kitchen tends to camouflage the mess so this is a useful tool to brush away the crumbs.

2. Rustic nails

Proving that practical, everyday objects can and should be beautiful.

3. The Heron Migrates

As collectors of studio pottery this book has been a great research tool, especially before a trip to Japan last year. We can’t wait to visit New Zealand one day and add some of the great NZ potters to our collection!

4. Handspun & handknitted wool socks

We both have a bit of an obsession with socks and a great admiration for the handmade.

5. Sori Yanagi salad servers

Because you can never have too many beautiful Japanese utensils.

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Holly Houston

Prairie is the creative studio of Holly Houston - self taught jeweller, ceramic artist, mother & gardener. Holly lives with her partner & children in a small beach town in Te Ika-a-Māui, North Island. Each Prairie treasure is made by hand out of her home studio, tucked in amongst the cottage gardens.

We chat to Holly about her essential everyday needs treasures and things that merge effortlessly into a lifestlye of mothering, working and being.

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