"Durable, honest, and handsome, the tableware and tiles created by Heath Ceramics are design icons. Made according to the artisanal tradition conceived by Edith Heath in the mid-1940s - when she founded the company in Sausalito, California - Heathware is as admired and sough after today as it was half a century ago. Heath is one of the few remaining mid-century modern American potteries, and now its remarkable history, legacy, and culture, along with the details of its output and the extraordinary life of the woman who created it, are told here for the first time.".

Contents. The Legacy -- Tableware -- Production -- Tile -- Experiments -- People. Essays. Introduction: A New Beginning / Catherine Bailey & Robin Petravic --The Legacy of Edith Heath and Heath Ceramics / Amos Klausner --Memories of Edith and Brian Heath / Jay Stewart --A New Factory for Heath Ceramics / Claude Stoller --Edith Heath and the Bauhaus / Steven Skov Holt & Mara Holt Skov --Tabletop Modernism: The Domestic Monuments of Edith Heath --California Dreaming / Yves Béhar --Edith Heath: Artist of the Everyday / Bill Stern --Edith Heath as the Quiet Master / Bob Forbes --The Phases of the Moon / Christina Kim -- Democracy, Domesticity, and Design: The Post-World War II American Landscape and the Birth of Heath Ceramics / Mara Holt Skov -- How a Dinner Plate Defines an Architectural Practice / Ron Radziner -- One-of-a-Kind Partnership: A Designer Remembers / Agnes Bourne -- Bauhaus Over Sung: Edith Heath's Synthesis -- Creating a Sense of Place / Alice Waters -- North x Northwest / Ann Sacks -- Confounding Expectations / Roy McMakin -- In Praise of Inconsistency / Tod Williams & Bilie Tsien -- Making the Heath Connection / Brooke Hodge.