In their element : dug from the earth, fired, blown, washed and shaped – new homeware pieces reveal traces of the organic. From geologically inspired miniatures to the secrets of alchemy and the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch, all life is here…Stylist Hana Al-Sayed Goods Editor Tamara Fulton  Hermès Hemisphere table centres in red lacquered wood, £1,530, orange lacquered wood, £1,040, and green lacquered wood, £650; uk.hermes.com Photographs Kate Jackling  Nim Copper coffee table, 1,000mm x 410mm, £7,950, edition of 50 numbered pieces; pinchdesign.com  Pulpo Mountain Small, 210mm x 9mm x 220mm, £110, and Mountain Large, 250mm x 200mm x 310 mm, £150; pulpoproducts.com; wagreen.co.uk World in your handsTaking the monumental and recreating it in miniature form, Jayne Walker’s geologically inspired sculptures play with our sense of scale, exploring the relationship between humankind and mother nature.Distilling a sense of the vastness of landscape into pieces that fit into one’s hand, Walker takes her cue from cartography – be it contour maps or 19th-century travel globes – in shaping the earth to her vision.Jayne Walker Winding Path, plaster, £360; guilded.co.uk  Iva Polachova Giving bowl, £600; thenewcraftsmen.com  Muubs Copenhagen round wall mirror, £175; Sophie Alda for The Conran Shop Round Handle Vase Cobalt, £115, Exaggerated Handle Vase Cobalt, £115, Bud Vase Cobalt Small, £75, and Diamond Vase Cobalt Medium, £115; all conranshop.co.uk Lucille Lewin Reinvention of Nature, porcelain and crystal, price on application, and Language of Tears, porcelain, £500, from the Alchemical Bodies series 2017; lucillelewin.com LifeformsLucille Lewin’s second, unexpected career as a ceramicist has been mysteriously beguiling – much like her designs, says Diana Woolf…Lucille Lewin’s life has followed an extraordinary creative trajectory. She started with a career in fashion, setting up Whistles and running it for 25 years before selling up in 2001 and moving on to work as creative director at Liberty. Then, in her 60s, she embarked on a second – equally impressive – career as a sculptor, working in ceramics, glass and metal.This wasn’t a planned move, but stemmed from a brief encounter with ceramics that grew into an all-consuming passion. ‘I just got hooked when I dropped off a friend at a ceramics class,’ she recalls. ‘The teacher gave me a piece of clay to work, and all my hairs stood up on end and I knew that was what I wanted to do.’This lightbulb moment was followed by a series of part-time courses which cumulated in a postgraduate degree in ceramics at London’s RCA. Lewin finished this last year –a particularly fruitful time for her as she also won the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize and held her first solo show – at Connolly, the Mayfair store relaunched by Isabel Ettedgui.Lewin’s work is as unexpected as her career path. From a distance, her intricate sculptures seem like careful arrangements of natural objects, but close up you realise they are built up of entirely imaginary shapes – sometimes referencing natural items such as coral or bleached bone, but never directly copying nature. Lewin uses these individual components to create highly complicated, fantastical miniature worlds that are as bewildering in their visual complexity as they are beguiling in their beauty. Her influences are equally unusual and range from 18th-century alchemy, the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, to early scientific photographs and the tweets of Donald Trump.There is also a strong personal element to the work. ‘It comes from my soul, and my history and my family,’ she says. However, this personal story is not overt – and Lewin is keen to keep her sculptures elusive. ‘The forms are not easy to decipher, there’s an ambiguity for me in the narrative and I don’t force anything on the viewer.’ The result is art that is truly weird and wonderful – an intriguing mix of the poetic, the surreal and the just everso slightly bizarre.Juliette Bigley selected vessels from installation TABLE, mixed metals (nickel silver, gilding metal, brass, sterling silver, copper), 2017, from £800 each; juliettebigley.com Aneta Regel Container (blue), 2018, stoneware clay, porcelain, volcanic rock components, glaze, slips and resin, price on application; sarahmyerscough.com Done by the forces of natureA finalist in the Loewe Craft prize 2018, the Polish-born London-based artist Aneta Regel utilises materials including clay, basalt, granite and volcanic rock components in her ceramic works. Eschewing the prosaic functionality of many potters, Regel instead produces vessels that are entirely sculptural, their organic forms inspired by the landscape and guided by aesthetic decisions alone – as if shaped by the forces of the earth itself.Alexa Lixfeld Olive Meteorite glass vase, £1,700; williamandson.com  Mattiazzi Round mirror, £175, conranshop.co.uk Sam Hecht & Kim Colin for Branca chair in black stained ash, £750; aram.co.uk  Blu Dot copper Real Good chair, £349; heals.com Goods assistants Vilma Paasivaara, Russell Hinton, Brian Cleaver, Jaclyn Pappalardo, Salsabila Aletha Sari