Kintsugi typically refers to the art of using lacquer to repair broken pottery pieces, but Freitas chose to apply the technique to common pieces of furniture, such as chairs, desks and ladders.

Before starting her own business, she worked at Big River Bindery, where she learned owner Andrew Huot’s expert book repair and preservation ... an heirloom piece of pottery.

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The BBC's The Repair Shop ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay said: 'As a trailblazing pottery designer ... paths that really ...