Ten ceramic tables exploring classical art and myths and re-expressing them in Florentine Maiolica, creating casual exchanges between diners with mythological moments.

SIMON MILLER

Born in 1958 in New Zealand, Simon Miller is a designer and an artist with 30 years of international experience in design, architecture and graphics. He studied at the Inchbald School of Design in London and then he was offered an apprenticeship with Lord Kenilworth of John Siddeley International. He moved to Italy in 1981, where he collaborated with many Italian leading designers and architects before transferring to Los Angeles to open his design studio in Hollywood concentrating on retail and bar and restaurant design. His ability to understand and create unique design solutions using a variety of styles and aesthetics from historical period work to avant garde design, has earned him a reputation as a creative consultant who provides sophisticated and exciting design solutions that endure the test of time. From architecture, design and graphics to fine arts, all my works come from my love of creating atmospheres with a maniacal attention to both perfection and the invention of new aesthetics which balance and that breathe life into my works. The culmination of this philosophy has revealed it’s most complete form in my ongoing series of painted ceramic works where I explore and interpret greek mythology. The medium of painting on ceramics has always intrigued me and I find it combines all of my creative talents and needs in one course of action , the perfect medium for me. One of the most interesting elements when I create the works is the virtually autonomous way the paintings develop. Realism is not the priority in creating the pieces. For me it is that academic definition which plasticises mystery and poetry.”