I have a small but growing collection of Ceramics, when all else fails, I take one to the workshop and do my best to recreate it in wood.
It rarely works out well, ceramics don't necessarily translate into a wooden object very well, but it is an interesting journey that make you think about the way you hold or turn the wood, differently and how you can make something work better, a part slightly larger, thinner, more round etc., etc..
Something else I've started lately is to look closely at Treen. Old wood turnings from the 17th, 18th or early 19th century and try to see why it's so different to today's turning, sometimes much more detailed in the designs, sometimes much more bland. Rarely what we now consider to be an interesting or aesthetic shape, but they work, because they were made for a purpose, what we would nowadays make from plastic.
In fact I see in the latest woodturning is a reproduced treen item, the Bun Candlesticks.