BaleFire Glass is a line of sacred art objects designed and hand made by Robbie Frankel in Portland, Oregon. Each object is a sculpture in itself, organic, visceral, bringing glass art into the home. With more than ten years glassblowing experience Robbie lets the glass guide the process. Through experimentation and non-traditional color techniques these home goods have a feel and look like no other.
Bow Glassworks is a line of colorful hand blown glass by Pierre Bowring in Beacon, NY. Pierre has been blowing glass since 2004. The extreme focus, fast pace, and immediacy of the glassblowing process keeps him coming back for more. The complexity of glassblowing keeps Pierre humble as a maker, which he believes is the most important characteristic a maker can have.
Carl Auböck, one of the best-known figures of Austrian modernism, creates functional brass objects. The Werkstätte was founded in the 19th century as a metal workshop by Karl Heinrich Auböck in Vienna, Austria. Today, the workshop is run by the fourth generation - by Carl Auböck IV, his daughter Zola and his sister Maria, with the original brass molds that were at the forefront of the Bauhaus and Wiener Werkstätte traditions.
Casa Veronica is a creative studio by Texas-based Veronica Ortuño. They offer creative services such as interior design and produce ceramic objects. Veronica’s work is led by a love of history, art, and travel. With deep respect for ancient traditions, pieces are primarily hand-built and hand-painted, making each creation distinctive and one-of-a-kind.
Caudex creates wheel-thrown planters in New York City. The vessels are built in two parts: the top, featuring a drainage hole, holds the plant; and the glaze-lined base collects excess water, allowing plants to thrive with proper drainage.
Brielle Macbeth Rovito expresses this concept through sculptural forms and designed objects. Her pieces evoke curiosity and playfulness, acting as an invitation to savor the present moment. By lending elegant form to raw material, Dust and Form seeks to honor our journey from dust to dust.
Eleonor Boström is a Swedish ceramicist designing clever, sculptural utility goods, currently based in San Francisco, CA. With a career in porcelain ceramics for over 10 years she has been refining the production of art objects with purpose and functionality.For a limited time: PARK, Eleonor’s one-of-a-kind ceramic fire hydrants, busy roads, dog friends, and squirrels, will be on display at Mociun HQ and available for purchase.
FACEVESSEL is handblown functional glassware studio featuring deconstructed face-like illustrations. Designed by artist Neal Drobnis– whose creative efforts often start as drawings, these unique pieces are produced in his studio in Providence, Rhode Island.
Fernanda Uribe-Horta is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Through her paintings and sculptures, she weaves an exploration of her Mexican-Cuban identity as inspired by a deep connection of ancient artifacts, mythologies and nature’s fragile but perfect harmony. Her slow, but thoughtful, technique of hand-sculpting, etching and painting mimic the natural process of metamorphoses and decadence, infusing an omnipresent sense of life into her work.
Good Medicine is a collection of handmade and found objects. Good Medicine candles are made in Detroit, Michigan with the finest quality fragrance oils and a soy wax blend for optimal scent throw. Made by Gregory Ducharme.
As a designer, Copenhagen-based Helle Mardahl is concerned with the beauty of contrasts. Such is made clear in her whimsical, one-of-a-kind glass pieces for the home––each at once alive and natural; fragile yet robust; simple yet ornate.
Created by Belgian-born Los Angeles-based artist Delphine Lippens, Humble Ceramics was born in 2010. Humble Ceramics is about polarity, the beauty of opposites and the magic that happens in between.
Ichendorf's glassware designs capture tradition and innovation while using ancient techniques and modern lines. Founded in the early years of the twentieth century in a small town near Cologne, named Quadrath-Ichendorf, many master-glaziers used a mix of substance, among which was silica, to give shape to objects which met the refined taste of that period. In 1950, a very important change in taste was established: to favor clean shape and purity of material in order to gain a kind of transparency which has no imperfection.
Waterbury, Vermont artist, Jeremy Ayers, makes functional pottery for everyday life. He strives to make pottery that celebrates the joy of eating and drinking and creates a special relationship between the owner and the object. His philosophy is to make handmade pottery that allows you want to slow down and enjoy the beauty of the moment.
Jonathan’s Spoons started the day Jonathan forgot to put a spoon in his lunch bag when he was working as an apprentice to a furniture maker. He took a piece of scrap wood and quickly shaped a spoon. Jonathan’s work has since been influenced by the architecture and design in his hometown of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania and by work produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement.
Established in 1972, Kinto started out as a wholesaler of tableware in Shiga, Japan. They eventually began developing our own line of products, with a passion to create products that bring comfort and inspiration into the everyday life. Ranging from tableware, drinkware, to interior accessories, they work to deliver products that balance usability and aesthetic to inspire and give fulfillment with every touch and use.
Handmade by a family of Italian artisans, La Ceramica Di Vincenzo Del Monaco represents the beauty of traditional craftsmanship. They have been making ceramics since the 15th century, with craftsmanship, precision, and beauty in mind. Each piece is handmade using a custom wheel and setup made to accommodate throwing larger pieces, coated with their own glaze, and inspected for complete perfection.
Founded by Pauline Vincent, La Romaine Editions is the continuation of a search for simple, spontaneous beauty in everyday life and objects.Pauline has always been surrounded by objects, and loves to recall the settings of her childhood, craftsmen’s workshops with her decorator aunt and grandmother, museums with her curator mother. She has long observed shapes and colors.
Laetitia Rouget is a French designer living in Lisbon. After studying at Central Saint Martins School, Laetitia’s career began as a fashion designer and her work soon evolved into playing with different mediums such as print, textile, paint and ceramic. Laetitia says working with ceramics is a way to connect her own creativity with her family's heritage in the porcelain business.
Laurence Brabant, designer & Alain Villechange, flame-worker, work together to create unique and functional glasswares in their French studio. Their range of utilitarian pieces are marked with the marvels of childhood, with its spirit of discovery and game. Demanding and challenging, this work values the rare expertise and skillfulness required in that flame working.
Little Bear Pots is a functional stoneware ceramic brand based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, handmade by Lindsey Schneider. She creates pieces that play with a blend of softness and sharpness, using patterned surfaces, craters, and spikes built out of hardened soft clay. In her work she is drawn to multiples and repetition, and nothing is molded or cast making every single piece entirely unique.
Lucie Claudia Podrabska was born in Buenos Aires to Czech parents. Her studio is currently in the countryside of Portugal. She designs glassware that that brings groove and personality to your space that is mouth-blown by a father-son glasshouse in the Czech Republic.
Maison Louis Marie is the result of a long, storied family history with scent, founded by Marie du Petit Thouars, who inspired by the botanical study of her grandfather created luxury candles, perfumes, and skincare that focus on illustrious scents imbued with unique floral fragrances. Made in harmony with the environment, she believes in making every effort to preserve the unique terroir of each fragrance element as it is derived from nature. Working with her husband Matthew Berkson has allowed them to remain committed to the business of clean beauty and non-toxic fragrances.
Malka Dina is the handmade ceramic work of New York City native Elana Noy, based in Brooklyn, NY; where she handcrafts her designs in her studio. She created Malka Dina to be a lifestyle brand with an interdisciplinary vision solely utilizing techniques that were invented hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. Her objective is to continue experimenting with these mediums to create objects unlike anything that has been seen before.
Multi-media artist Jillian Mayer presents a limited collection of unique handmade glass faces in her sculptural exploration of the medium with new collectible works. "Some Jerks I Know from the Internet" plays with the cacophony of faces behind the glass screens we engage with every day. MAYER OBJECTS is the artist's new design project and each glass face is numbered, dated, and with a certificate of authenticity.
Family-run company, Mazzotti, continues to use all the original materials and handcrafted techniques handed down through the generations since its founding in 1903 to make unique ceramic pieces. These precious works of art are still made today by Tullio Mazzotti, a fourth generation member, using the same design, the same material and same manual working procedures. Today their pottery is a cultural reference point both in Italy and worldwide for the production of limited addition designs and hand-crafted ceramics.
Misha Kahn is an American designer and sculptor, known for assemblage. He incorporates refuse and found objects in his furniture and lighting designs. Kahn's style has been described as "disheveled, spontaneous maximalism."
Morgan Peck is a ceramicist living in Los Angeles. Her namesake ceramic company, started in 2011, includes mirrors, lamps, sculptures and vases all made in her backyard studio. Every piece is made individually by hand without the use of molds. Peck’s work continues in the footsteps of the studio potters that preceded her and she takes note of numerous styles, hinting at the Memphis Group, the Bauhaus, and Art Deco, moving through these references with a modest, considered, and decidedly modern touch.
Namu means “tree” in Korean, and Namu Home Goods strives to highlight the natural beauty of wood—with an artist’s eye—as a reflection of harmony, harvest, and peace. Founder Diana Ryu is dedicated to unearthing gallery-quality woodwork from Korea, sourced with a distinctly Korean-American aesthetic. The offerings look as beautiful in a midcentury modern as they would in a traditional Hanok.
Dina Nur Satti is the Brooklyn-based designer and maker behind Nur Ceramics, a lifestyle ceramics line. Her pursuit of ceramics was born out of her studies in African art and pre-colonial African societies, and an interest in learning how ritual objects and spatial design elevate experiences.
Lameice Abu Aker is a Palestinian designer based in Jerusalem. Interested in the intersection between art and design, she aims to create contemporary designed pieces through collaborating with glass blowers from Jaba’ village in the Palestinian territories.
Palorosa is a lifestyle brand founded in 2014 by Cecilia Pirani, Italian – Guatemalan landscape architect. The project rethinks utilitarian objects, by using innovative colors and shapes, designing a series of tote bags and small accessories inspired by distant places for everyday life. Palorosa’s calling comes from her desire to make architecture and fashion coexist and collaborate, to create bags and accessories ready to wear and to be used as objects as well.
Handcrafted in Japan by former baker Yukiko Morita, Pampshade lamps are handmade lights made from real homemade bread and fully coated in resin. The quirky designs are as charming as they are delicious. Each unique light is made of bread and LED lights. The lights are extremely durable as each piece of bread is treated in a special resin coating to prevent the bread from decay.
Rami Kim is a Los Angeles based artist, maker and an award winning animator whose practice is focused mainly on sculptural and functional ceramic objects. With her background in animation, her work is whimsical and poetic. Her inspiration comes from organic shapes, nature, feelings, and people. She currently works out of her studio in Glendale, CA.
Ceramics with playful patterns and practical design, handmade in Brooklyn. Started by Josephine Noel in 2012, Recreation Center is a small ceramic brand focused on quality made, functional pieces that are made to assist and contribute to a less boring and more colorful day.
Reflections Copenhagen is a collaboration between the Danish designers Julie Hugau and Andrea Larsson that challenge the traditional styles, colours and shapes of today’s décor by adding new dimensions and possibilities to interior decorating.
Saipua, Finnish for "soap", is a Brooklyn, NY company devoted to the dual crafts of flower arranging and soap-making. Saipua was founded by Sarah Ryhanen in 2006. Through her floral practice, she has cultivated a distinct aesthetic, inspiring a broad movement in floral design and soap making.
Soulful cutlery made by artisans in New Mexico. Founded by Bill Wirtel, who started his own shop in New Mexico’s legendary jewelry mecca in 1978, the company remains family run and led, where he continues to work on each handmade object with his son and daughter. All of their pieces are crafted in a century-old adobe ranch house is home to both the gallery and production facilities. Each piece is painstakingly hand-finished with a gem-quality handle.
Serax is a Belgian design label, active for more than 30 years and still managed with a passionate family spirit. Today Serax works with passionate designers from all over the world.
With glass as the primary material, artist Silje Lindrup creates objects in the borderland between arts and crafts. Interested in living processes where body, technique, and material together decide the result, she strives to push boundaries within traditional glass making.
Sirius Glassworks is founded by Peter Gudrunas, a master glassblower working in an ancient art, forming contemporary glass that is prized for its classic beauty. Every piece of Sirius glassware is hand made from its molten state. Formed using wood and steel tools, the fluid nature of the material means every piece is entirely unique.
Sisters Body was created by, three sisters, Doni, Eva, and Jo Zasloff. As a musician, a family doctor and a midwife— and as mothers— they are dedicated to sustaining the well-being and enriching the lives of others. Sisters Body is a line of nontoxic hair and body products that is nourishing, smells amazing, and is safe for everyone.Their products are nourishing, 100% naturally fragranced, and packaged in 100% recycled bottles. All products in their line are free from sulfates, parabens, PEGs, chemical preservatives or chemical fragrances. In line with their mission, Sisters Body donates 40% of all profits from Sisters Body to organizations that support women’s health.
Slush Club is a woman-led ceramics studio based in Tacoma, Washington producing dinnerware designed and hand-built by Shannon Eakins. Pieces develop organically, transforming nerikomi techniques into complex patterns. Slush Club uses locally-sourced clay and the stains are added directly into the clay bodies to create deep, rich hues as well as subtle gradations, making each piece unique.
Soeun Lee is a stained glass artist born in South Korea and now based in Brooklyn, NY. Through the medium of stained glass, she captures fleeting moments - a still life, the warmth of a kitchen table-and immortalizes them. Each piece reflected the interplay of permanence and fragility, reminder of life's transient beauty.
Soft Skills is a studio project initiated by Jocelyn Miller dedicated to sharing art and design imprinted with the social and emotional intelligences of the body. Art and objects have a magic all their own, but people bring them to life. Our ceramic art objects are explorations in nature, form, simplicity, and sustainability, and are intended for community-making. centers on the belief that functionality and care are natural languages of beauty that we can all share for thoughtful, inspired living.
Solenne Belloir is a ceramicist from Paris. She creates objects somewhere between sculpture and design. Her works draw inspiration from the architectural structures found in the Parisian landscape, such as pipes, chimneys, water towers, and balconies. Her pieces are made with high temperature clays. Their unique looks are obtained by associating different techniques such as wheel-throwing and modeling by hand.
Sophie Lou Jacobsen is a product designer whose work focuses on enhancing the enjoyment of everyday objects. Using design as a tool for analyzing modern rituals, she aims to alter perspectives and ultimately mood through her work. After having spent the first 10 years of design trajectory between London and Paris, Sophie is now based in New York City, and designs objects, graphics, and spaces. In August 2019, she launched her first collection of homeware goods
Special Interest Goods is a Los Angeles based creative studio that specializes in the art of giving. Their love of gifting began at a young age with personalized friendship bracelets and eventually evolved into showing up to housewarmings with handmade candles. They carefully curate and create objects to help you find the perfect gift for those who have an appreciation for beautiful things.
Stephanie Phillips is a ceramic artist from Sydney, Australia. She draws strong influence in her artistic direction from both of her grandmothers. Her paternal grandmother was a Russian immigrant who was a talented artist and craftswoman, while her maternal grandmother was involved in the establishment of The Crommelin Native Arboretum at Pearl Beach, NSW, where Stephanie has spent many weekends and holidays since childhood.
Sticky is a Brooklyn based design company developed by Grace Whiteside that specializes in multi-functional, performative and collaborative glasswork. All glass is hand-blown.
Sugahara produces glassware of unsurpassed quality and beauty. Each piece is handcrafted with the meticulous attention to detail that you would expect from Japan's finest craft glass studio. Since being founded in 1932, in Tokyo, artisans at Sugahara have applied traditional Japanese design techniques to reveal and express the beauty of glass in ways never before seen, in handcrafted glassware.
Suzanne Sullivan sculpts, with guidance from her intuition, to add extraordinary texture and striking pattern play to ordinary moments. Her one-of-a-kind, hand-built porcelain pieces feature gold leaf accents and are made in Philadelphia.
Willem van Hooff is a craftsman based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Working with his hands, or by means of primitive techniques his style is raw. Often revisiting old or existing products, machines and techniques with a naive perspective, he rescues the past, creating new and exciting applications giving the materials or processes a new future.
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