York

Many travel guides will tell you about York's little streets, and its tendency to have those streets invaded by Vikings, Romans and such. It’s all true. But nowadays it's what York's community does with those little streets that really sets it apart. You'll find a crowd of independent shops, cafes and galleries, plus layer after layer of ancient architecture jostling for position. Presiding over it all is the glorious York Minster, a sandstone leviathan with immense charisma that dominates the city centre and offers fresh, weird design delights with each repeat visit. Photography by Peter Byrne and words by Russ Thorne

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Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA)

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York boasts the largest and most important British studio ceramics collection in the UK and The Centre of Ceramic Art, which opened in 2015, opens it up for the public to explore. The highlight is Clare Twomey’s magnificent ‘Manifest: 10,000 Hours’, a piece specially commissioned for and inspired by the collection: 10,000 bowls pile high up into the sky, dominating the new space and dwarfing observers. Fancy getting creative? Rainbow Ceramics around the corner will let you paint your own.

Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA)
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The Inkwell

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