Best wishes for 2024!

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Please spare a thought for the natural environment at this time of the year and the detrimental impact fireworks have on our vulnerable wildlife. The dazzling displays that light up our skies during celebrations are not without consequences. Fireworks release harmful pollutants and heavy metals into the air and can have lasting negative effects. Above all, the loud bangs, explosions, cracks and whistles cause extreme stress, disorientation and even death in animals, both domestic and wild, leading them into dangerous situations or causing permanent harm.

That said, look after yourselves and best wishes for a creative and gratifying New Year!

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Wim Mühlendyck (1905-1986). Salt-glazed decorative plate, incised signature and his famous Mühlenflügel windmill motif. Mühlendyck set up his own workshop in ‘Kannenbäckerstad’ Höhr-Grenzhausen in 1931 and built a pottery studio, Töpferhof Mühlendyck, there in 1936, collaborating for a time with his friend and fellow revivalist, Elfriede Balzar-Kopp. The Töpferhof is still a working pottery studio to this day and is located within a five-minute walk from the wonderful Keramikmuseum Westerwald.