Customer Reviews

500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design

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I pre-ordered this book around 3 months ago. It was well worth the wait. I'm so pleased to have this book as an addition to my collection.

If you love Tea Pots .... you will love looking through the many extraordinary designs. This is a book you can look at over and over. And, just when you think you've seen them all ... you will see something new and exciting that you didn't notice before.

I just let my artist friends see this book. They were all in awe and each found several favorite teapots. I am ordering an extra for the studio as I probably wouldn't see MY book again should I leave it there for inspection.

If you have a potter friend who likes to make teapots, this is the book for that friend. 500 Teapots is a straightforward, beautifully photographed and compiled book. All one simply has to do is look at the pictures to become inspired in trying new shapes, textures and glazes in teapot throwing and design. You will not be disappointed.

If you like teapots, you'll love this book. There are some really beautiful pots here beautifully photographed. I was pleased to see that I own pieces by a couple of the potters. My only gripe is that I know potters whose work I would have included. Silvie Granatelli of Virginia, who makes imcomparable teapots, and Chris Simoncelli of Atlanta come to mind, just to name two. I would have preferred that no potter had more than one teapot shown-- there are several who have as many as three-- in order that other equally good potters could have been represented.

Especially for potters and others who love teapots, this is a MUST HAVE book. It is perfectly and simply presented with large color plates of every imaginable,(and some unbelievable) contemporary teapots from around the world. Make yourself a pot of tea and you could easily spend an afternoon with this book.

But if I were a little teapot, I'd be one of the beautiful ones in this book. There are teapots both plain, and beyond description to fascinate, amuse and amaze you. If you know a little about firing ceramics, and glaze technology, the information provided will deepen your appreciation of each teapot. You may find that some of these artists are in your area, and have ceramics for sale. Or if you just like teapots, there enough teapots here in beautiful color photos to sate your appetite.

This book is for teapots'lovers what Imagination is for artist.
Enjoy it!
Good editing,really good photos, paper and size.
No dubts about this purchase.

As a potter, I found this bright,strongly bound, well photographed and coloured paperback is a delightful breath of fresh air.This trove of between 1 and 3 teapots each from about 250 potters,largely North American based, has been in my pottery for about 2 years and it still does not disappoint. I can only hope the buying public will receive it as kindly,especially at this low price.

I bought this for my mother who is a huge teapot collector for her birthday and she loves it.

So all I can really add for a review is that to a teapot collector, this seems to be a good coffee table type of book for their collection.

Good photos and commentary.

I bought this book and looked through it with post its to label all the interesting teapot ideas I was drawn to. When considering this book, I wasn't particularly drawn to the cover teapot and wondered if I would be disappointed in the authors picks, but I wasn't. This is a great visual resource for my classroom and studio.

As someone else has commented, I would have given this book 5 stars if the author hadn't repeated multiple photos of very similar teapots by the same artist.

As a ceramics teacher who teaches her students how to build teapots, this book is a wonderful resource. The pictures are great and it helps give students a better understanding of what a teapot can look like.