Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava explores this fertile tension in German ceramics, with reproductions of relevant works, an essay by the ceramics specialist Horst Markus and an interview with designer Ronan Bouroullec.

"This book is intended as an introduction to the great and unusual production of ceramics, especially vases, which took place in Germany in the period around 1960-1990. Here is selected 27 of these companies.

This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.