Bernard Leach

Studio pottery, Cornwall. Leach, who learned pottery in Japan, set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 1920 with Shoji Hamada. Alongside individual pieces, it made a catalogue of standard tableware sold at modest prices, and trained apprentices in a workshop system. His book A Potter's Book became a handbook for generations of craft potters. Making a living from it was hard, and the pottery relied on that standard ware to survive.