Richard Brendon

London-based designer and British bone china expert Richard Brendon was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1987. He studied product and furniture design at Kingston University in London, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in 2010. Shortly after graduating, his work was discovered by Lucia van der Post, who featured it in the Financial Times magazine, How To Spend It. Brendon formally launched his own studio in 2012, just off Portobello Road in London.

Brendon is a master ceramist. He works with expert craftsmen and manufacturers in Stoke-on-Trent, renowned for producing the finest quality bone china in the world. His collaborators and clientele consist of retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Liberty, Fortnum & Mason, Paul Smith, and Lane Crawford. Outstanding projects to date include the Reflect range (2011), an eclectic series of new, hand-painted, classically shaped porcelain cups matched with found antique saucers; and Reason (2013), a graphic, bone china tableware collection made in collaboration with online image archive Patternity.