“Sophie is a friend and true creative, and whether it’s her decorative dishes, her salt pig and butter dish alternatives, vases or lampstands, to own a 1690 piece is to own a work of art.” - Sarah
Ceramics brand 1690 is the brainchild of Sophie Wilson: an academic turned ceramicist whose distinctive wares are things to have and hold onto. She began 1690 when her fifth child started school, deciding to set up her own Diagon Alley-style space where she imagined Molly Weasley might go for her essentials. She made candles, balms and jams but it was her ceramics that took off, unsurprisingly. In came the kiln into the laundry room and she began balancing mothering and throwing clay late into the night. Sophie’s pieces can be found in a small number of shops and galleries around the world, all made in the outbuildings of her family home in the Dorset countryside.
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