St Ives pottery fires up after £1.7m restoration

The Japanese ambassador, Yoshiji Nogami, is flew to Cornwall yesterday to pay his respects to the memory of the potter Bernard Leach, now far more famous in Japan than in his native country, at a smoke-blackened fireplace in St Ives - once the meeting place of eastern and western craft traditions.
From his eccentric perch by the hearth, a plank laid over a three-legged, iron cooking pot, Leach entertained, lectured and harangued visitors from all over the world - and trained generations of British potters for more than 50 years... more>