AGA goes dotty over new Emma Bridgewater model

Celebrated pottery designer Emma Bridgewater has designed a gorgeous polka-dot AGA as part of celebrations to mark 300 years of AGA's historic Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire, where every AGA is still hand-made today.

The stunning 3-oven AGA (available in 13AMP and Gas) features Emma’s signature multi-coloured spots and is a charming addition to the AGA palette.  Emma is a life long AGA fan, she writes;

"The first kitchen I can remember was painted the colour of blackcurrant fool (the instruction my mum gave the surprised painters) and we had a large white AGA which was fed with nuts of coke from a coal scuttle that needed riddling night and morning, followed by the familiar small scale drama of the emptying out of a tray of red hot ash to cries of ‘stand back!’ Our clothes hung up to dry on a rack above, the bantams wandered in and out under the disdainful gaze of Alfie the Siamese cat and Mum rolled out pastry for treacle tarts, quiches and other 60s staples on the white Formica. Since then there have been several other crucial kitchens in my life and almost all of them have had an AGA to lean on."

"So when I set out to make kitchen china, before the first designs came the clear mental picture of the scrubbed kitchen table, the wide shelves of the dresser, and of course the AGA, which set the scene. With this in mind, it feels completely right to be working with the friendly AGA people; in fact I can’t think why we did not think of it ages ago! Our recent visit to their foundry was a huge excitement for me. This part of Shropshire, known as Coalbrookdale, really is the cradle of our Industrial Revolution and to discover that from start to finish every AGA is made here, by hand, by skilful craftspeople, just as cooking ranges have been made for British kitchens ever since we stopped cooking over an open fire- well I could not have been more thrilled."

For further information please call your local AGA Shop.

Selected AGA Shops are also stocking Emma Bridgewater pottery - great Christmas gifts, click here for the full list of stockists.

Great British Cookers

The new Emma Bridgewater model was commissioned as part of the AGA-Rangemaster Group’s Great British Cooker campaign. In all four designers and celebrities were asked to add their personal touch to four cookers from the AGA-Rangemaster collection…

Natasha Hamilton of Atomic Kitten created a Rangemaster cooker with a bold cup cakes design.

Eco designer Oliver Heath produced a Rayburn with a patchwork quilt design.

Celebrity chef Nick Nairn drew on his Scottish roots with a tartan Falcon cooker.