NO 9 BECAUSE IT’S A UNITED STATE OF STYLE

Great South African design meets great American design in a collaboration between Skinny laMinx and Heath Ceramics.

WORDS MALIBONGWE TYILO

California-based Heath Ceramics was founded in 1948 by husband-and-wife team Brian and Edith Heath. Fast-forward to 2003, when another couple, Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey, bought the company and set about re-energising it through boosted productivity, new products and collaborations. In 2008, when Cape Town-based textile designer Heather Moore had just opened her Skinny laMinx online store, Heath Ceramics was one of the first to place a wholesale order with her. This past June, Heather travelled to Los Angeles. “As part of the Heath Finds series of in-store highlights of retail partners, I got a section of the LA showroom to display an expanded range of Skinny goods,” she says. As well as supplying goods to order, Heather has enjoyed a collaborative relationship with Heath Ceramics. “I designed and printed…

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