Forms with Architectural Reliefs and Impressions for BESS Paddington

Functional Sculpture’s collaboration with BESS Paddington is an ongoing collection in dialogue with the store’s architectural features, material history, and evolving floral language. The motifs draw from decorative architectural patterns found throughout Paddington’s historic interiors, including plaster cornices and pressed-tin panels. The forms span traditional and experimental jugs and vases, with evolving handle treatments and small iterative shifts in proportion that reflect active studio process and material experimentation.

A pressed-tin floral tile collected during the renovation of the BESS shop at 27 William Street anchors a broader library of impressions referencing the area’s domestic ornamentation. The collection also references earlier explorations such as the BESS Brick, developed in response to early brickmaking and its associated textured surfaces.