UNION 5

WHITEBEAM STUDIO LTD

£18

A side/salad plate in English fine bone china from our Union collection tracing the story of ‘ ’, representing partnership, collaboration and coming together - union. Add our Union serving plate and white tableware or display on the wall. Union 5 compares contemporary serif fonts - Perpetua 1925-29 by English designer/printmaker/stonecutter Eric Gill, Trajan 1989 by artist/designer Carol Twombly USA and Minion 1990 by type designer Robert Slimbach USA. From Pompeii graffiti 2000 years ago to today, the Union collection tells the story of ‘ ’, a mark that evolved from the Latin ‘et’. The design

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