Handmade ceramic vase:
This handmade ceramic vase is made to order.
Dimensions: 14cm x 12cm
This piece is wheel-thrown and hand built with stoneware clay, then glazed with experimental Manganese-saturated glazing and re-fired.
Entirely handmade, without the use of any molds, this vase can be customized in tableware plates and bowls sets.
It is food-safe and does not leak.
Pearl earrings and necklaces by Velmar Jewellery House.
Shipping:
Please allow up to 2 weeks for shipping.
Free delivery in the EU for orders over 450 €.
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Story:
We worked on the ‘’Tylissos’’ series in Crete, where part of Elina’s family is from. There we explored Ancient Minoan ceramics and objects, made for and by a society tuned with rituals around nature and bigger forces. We have never been able to decipher the Minoan civilization and its written language. What we are left with, so clear, so vivid and tangible is its craft – softened
by time, rendered ageless and so much more mystical and powerful. This language and absence of thereof inspired our process.
Minoan ceramics and pottery like most ancient clay traditions carry the finish of the technical abilities of their time. Low and uneven firing leads to soft, porous surfaces. We tried to distance the appearance of our ceramic from Minoan pottery through hyper-technical, high-firing, and metal-like finishes. We searched for a new identity, through physical qualities that change in different light conditions. The changing appearance of our glazing can sometimes look dark brown or black, light brown, blueish, or transparent; exposing the grains of the stoneware underneath. It has this contradiction of a grainy but smooth character.
A private commission for jewelry exhibition boards came in, while we were immersed in studying Minoan culture. We didn’t want to make the banal and often lifeless exhibition boards, but objects that could exist on their own, even when no jewelry is exhibited on them. We then thought of vases. Vessels that could have a life on their own in many shapes and change all the time; with the seasons, adorned with necklaces, and different flower arrangements. We went through many iterations and tests to see what worked best with the jewelry.
Excerpts from an interview by Martin Clausen for Adorno.
