Image Interiors
"Next year I want to concentrate on creating a new series of lamps and lampshades. It's one thing I have noticed living abroad and especially living in Italy and France - they have really lovely lighting while ours seems to have been in something of a time warp."

Irish Interiors
"Stephen Pearce gives the impression of someone who is totally at one with his world. A native of Shanagarry, County Cork he now spends part of his life in England and France and has a home in Italy."

Ireland's Homes Interiors and Living magazine
"I've come to the point when I think the whole creative process is about understanding what one doesn't understand - it's like I'm just there as the audience while I'm painting." Stephen divides his time between working on new deigns for his pottery and painting in Italy and France.

Cara Magazine
"Minimalist in design, but startlingly eye-catching, Pearce's pottery combines traditional crafting with modern functionality".

Sunday Tribune
"The name Stephen Pearce is synonymous with the very best of Irish handmade pottery."

Sunday Tribune
"There's something about Stephen Pearce's kitchenware pottery that just doesn't date."
The Irish Times - Organic pottery for purists
"If you're going to give your body a chemical clear-out by eating organic food, you could become really purist and opt for organic tableware to consume it from."

The Times magazine
"Collectors of Stephen Pearce include Woody Allen, Sinéad Cusack and Paul McCartney, as well as chefs, cookery writers and fashion designers. Vittorio Radice, managing director of Selfridges, is an admirer of the sophisticated ware and has included the Pearce brothers' work in the store's newly refurbished china and glass rooms."

Social & Personal magazine
"Stephen Pearce is a potter and an artist. For someone who has lived his entire life for and by creativity, Stephen is still somewhat shy about his painting as he did not study the medium and has no certificates to formally prove and approve his ability." Paintings by Stephen Pearce.

House and Home magazine
"The new range is now bigger and better and is equally suited to traditional or modern homes."

Social & Personal magazine
"A complex character himself, his philosophies as well as his surroundings are usually based on simplicity. He is an astute businessman who now deals in very large figures, but has always maintained 'possessions carry responsibility, I don't mind losing anything, except friends.' "

From 'Private Ireland' - A book by Simon McBride and Karen Howes
"A man of enormous energy and drive, Stephen Pearce designed and built his home in 1972 for the princely sum of £ 6,100,. He has successfully revisited the old Irish farmhouse design, drawing on traditional ideas while incorporating several twentieth-century luxuries".

Inspirations magazine
"For a man who gets his design inspiration from, in his own words, 'The endless reservoir of ideas in the universe', Stephen is remarkably pragmatic in business.

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