May 3, 2008
$450 Cheese Dome Incorporates Wild Plants into the Design
You may need to be quite the cheese lover (or just someone with a lot of disposable income) to consider spending $450 on a cheese dome, but if you like the idea of one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted kitchen accessories, then look no further.
Oh, and did I mention that botanical specimens play an important part in the creation?
Suzanne Crane's cheese dome is one of several types of pieces for the home she makes, all inspired by nature. Okay, more than inspired. Plants are used in the design:
"Each of my botanical pieces begins with a walk in the mountains and woods of Central Virginia where I gather wild plant specimens. All of my pieces are wheel-thrown using a buff-colored stoneware clay body. I press plant specimens into the wet clay, and then pull the specimen off, leaving an accurate fossil impression which gives me a template for glazing."
It takes 3-6 weeks to finish a piece completely. $450 doesn't sound so incredible when you take all that into consideration.
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