Footwear design is always a favorite undertaking for industrial designers, at least insofar as certain shoe silhouettes can be as iconic as those of automobiles, furniture or even architecture. The New Balance 577 fits the bill, and here we see the classic style re-imagined by ceramic artist Jon Lawrence, "hand-crafted and glazed from authentic Cumbrian clay quarried just a stones throw away from NB's Flimby factory."
It's not an original design by any means, yet Lawrence's fabrication aspires to elevate the classic shoe to art—as a decorative object, if nothing else.
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Check his Converse All Star:
http://www.leonearte.it/?page_id=66