Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada's founding of a pottery at St Ives, Cornwall in 1920, with the first traditional Japanese climbing kiln in the West. The workshop joined East Asian and English country pottery traditions and trained generations of apprentices, becoming the wellspring of the studio pottery movement.
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Milestone Year WhenFounded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall. 1 LocationSt Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
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In 1922 Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi came from Japan to rebuild an unsuccessful climbing kiln for the pottery.
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