I love cookbooks, always have. There's nothing better for my pieces to be put to work and used for lovely meals and dining. Cookbooks are an opportunity to show beautiful and appetizing food on them.
This is a new cookbook by Avigail Meislik. Simply Good - cooking for Shabat. Styling and photos by Shoshi Sirkis . Danny books Publishing.

My friend Maya and I have worked on quite a few projects together. She's a super intelligent-talented-creative and fun person to work with. She's a stylist with lots of art and design experience, so many times when we're having coffee and brainstorming, we can speak in code and know what the other one means...
Maya has worked mostly as a food stylist but over the years, has moved more to industrial and private interiors. She has been complimented as being a stylist with a curator's eye. I definitely agree with that .
Here are a bunch of photos of work we've done together.

Below, from Zedka showroom. Interior design Ronit Goldfried, photos Nadav Pakt, styling Maya Livnat. Figure vignettes and irons - yours sincerely...

Interview with Paul Blais on the potter's cast ! So much fun....

Put some great  food on a handmade plate, some fruit in a lovely handmade bowl, drink coffee from a handmade mug. You'll feel the difference, you'll see it. 

That's when functional pottery truly comes to life.
Years ago, just out of school, I gave a mug to a friend's husband who didn't really understand what the whole big deal about ceramics was, who needed all this handmade stuff - you know what I'm talking about...anyway, a few months later he told me that he drinks only out of the mug I gave him.

I truly believe that there is that magical feel using handmade ceramics.