As a designer and art director, Peter Speliopoulos has held high perches in high fashion—brands such as Carolyne Roehm, Cerutti, and Donna Karan—for over 30 years. He’s also designed costumes for the radical classicist Karole Armitage. Put Speliopoulos at the potter’s wheel and what kind of vessels will this man with the erudite eye create? Archaic, elemental, with the tonal abrash of a tribal rug. —L.J.