people will always need plates

People Will Always Need Plates...
...aim to use high quality, low volume batch production to create witty, thoughtful and stylish products as a direct antithesis to the current proliferation of cheap, throwaway design. In keeping with their credo that good design should be used and enjoyed, treasured and shared, Hannah and Robin develop products that, while diverse in style and application, always retain the fundamental values of functionality and beauty.

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There's been a lot of hard labour going on at Plates HQ and the fruits of Hannah and Robin's long hours drawing and colouring will soon be available. There'll be new Trellick Tower shoppers, a new range of Brutalist architecture wares featuring The Barbican, The Brunswick and a host of British concrete masterpieces, new commissions for the Royal Festival Hall and The Twentieth Century Society, and there is even New Spin, a combination of ceramic and pewter tableware produced in collaboration with Wentworth Pewter in Sheffield. There are also plates and mugs and badges and teatowels and notebooks and colouring books and, and, and...



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Following the success of their London Homes and 1930s Modernist plates celebrating the diversity of domestic architecture, while making a wry comment on the tradition of collectible plate sets, People Will Always Need Plates have created a third set of dinner-plates. Ain't Concrete Great? is a set of eight bone china plates illustrating the best of British Brutalist architecture, from The Toast-Rack to Trinity Square and The Barbican to The Brusnwick.

There are two sets of four images - London-based domestic buildings and UK-wide municipal masterpieces - and these will be available from early November as plates and mugs. There will also be a selection of Brutalist cotton tea towels, button badges, notebooks and other smaller items in time for the East London Design Show.


1930s Modernist London Homes plates and mugs are now available in a new bright palette??. This set of English bone china plates and mugs illustrates the minimal beauty of white-rendered pre-war modern masterpieces across London. There are six images available and in keeping with the tradition of collectible plates each image is a limited edition.?? While they look super hanging on the wall, all our plates (and mugs, excluding gold versions) are dishwasher and microwave safe and suitable for food use.?

The previous edition of 1930s in the soft colour palette has now sold out apart from a few odd pieces and some slight seconds and we'll be selling these and the new bright palette seconds with a discount of 20 - 60%


Erno Goldfinger's Brutalist masterpiece Trellick Tower has captured the imagination of many a Londoner, so we're continuing to celebrate this concrete edifice with a new edition of our ever-popular Trellick Tower mugs. As well as the 27.5cm plate in 70s green, a matching 25cl mug in both 70s green and 'VW' orange, there is now a third larger-sized, super limited edition 35cl mug in black and gold. The plate costs £25, 25cl mugs £10 and the black and gold version £20.


People Will Always Need Plates have continued their exploration into the glorification of pure Modernist architecture with a set of three limited-edition bone china platters - Goldfinger, Golden Section and Golden Lane. As they're so keen to evangelise the subject matter, the new pieces are printed in luxe gold line with black 'skies' and celebrate Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation and his influence over Erno Goldfinger's Trellick Tower, and Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's Golden Lane. The tiny numbered edition is now finished, but we have a very few slight seconds that will be special offer during the show from only £40 each.


London Traffic mugs celebrate the joy of driving in The Capital. Next time you're stuck in a jam, just take a look around at the amazing diversity of transport that's delaying your journey to work! London Traffic consists of a pair of limited edition bone china mug design illustrated with on-glaze black line drawing, one showing a traffic queue and the other a carpark. While they look super filled with pens on your desk, the mugs are dishwasher and microwave safe and suitable for food use and are therefore much better employed for morning coffee, tea or whatever takes your fancy. The mugs cost £10 each and there is also a 22.5cm bone china Chelsea Tractor toast plate that costs £12.50.


Lunar lanterns provide a portable light source to enjoy indoors and outside, with simple hanging wire to allow easy installation from any hook or line. While functional and practical, the lamps are also a quirky addition to the home - gently glowing friends to add a little cheer to dark evenings. One lantern is fun, many are stunning. Batch produced in England using translucent bone china, Lunar Lanterns are sold as a set of three (one in each of three shapes) and cost £100. A set of three will be on special offer for the show, priced at £40 per set of three.


The Marie Antoinette candelabrum is inspired by the glamour and sense of occasion where champagne is drunk in a couple. Hand blown crystal sconces sit securely in a fine ribbon of laser cut stainless steel and the two materials both contrast and work beautifully together. The rose glass is inspired by celebratory pink champagne, but the sconces are available in clear crystal, or a variety of colours to suit. The shape of sconce catches any wax, is suitable for use with floating candles - or can simply be filled with champagne! Marie Antoinette normally costs £99, but the version with clear sconces will be on special offer during the show for only £30.


For All Your Little Animals includes a new pet ware range with feeding bowls for your dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils... In keeping with their London Homes tableware, the English bone china bowls feature illustrations of animal homes and come in 3 sizes, large for dogs, medium in versions for cats and dogs and small for cats and all your little furballs. All pieces are made and decorated in Stoke on Trent and have non-slip silicon rubber feet. Large bowls cost £45, medium £33 and small £20. Pet bowls will be on special offer during the show with a 20% discount.
For All Your Little Animals also includes a new children's dining set illustrating some of our favourite vintage toddler toys. The set comprises a 23cm Pony plate, 17cm Seal bowl and one 25cl Dog mug; Pony and Seal mugs are available separately. All pieces are made and decorated in Stoke-on-Trent. If you don't have kids of you own, buy them for someone else's, or fill a bowl with Golden Nuggets and settle down to reminisce over your own '70s breakfast. The set costs £50.


?Here at People Will Always Need Plates HQ, we're in awe of the original sprigged ware of the late 1700s, and in homage to the masterful work of modeller John Flaxman, we've produced a splendid new tea set decorated in traditional jasper ware colours.?? We Heart Josiah is our own personal tribute to the work of Josiah Wedgwood I, FRS, known as the Father of English Potters. We are grateful to the Wedgwood Company, owners of the registered trade marks Wedgwood ®, Jasper ® and the colour Wedgwood Blue ® for their kind permission in allowing us to offer this range in this way. The entire range will be on special offer during the show with 20 - 50% off usual RRP.

The bone china ware is dishwasher and microwave safe and decorated in Stoke-on-Trent.


Like many other wise folk, People Will Always Need Plates are heartily sick of the self-righteous promotion of fashion houses in their attempts to seem ecologically aware. Have you ever seen anyone actually USE the 'I am not...' as anything other than a handbag? As such, our new UK-made cotton canvas shopper is suitably robust to take all your groceries - or your swimming kit or school books - and Hannah and Robin want you to use and abuse and love this bag until it's fraying and tatty, by which time they'll have made a new one with a new picture to last you another good while.

As they're so keen to banish the wasteful use of plastic and paper carriers (the latter is not as ecologically viable as you might think), Hannah and Robin will be giving customers a free bag when they spend over £150 on People Will Always Need Plates products at the show, and will be also be selling shoppers at super low prices to all other attendees. They won't, however, be providing throw-away bags, so if you're attending, please also bring your own shopper to keep jangly china purchases safe!

















Prices correct until January 2008

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