Lakenvaas Blue

Description

We have been working on an extended experimental material research project in collaboration with Cor Unum, a social ceramics workshop in ‘S Hertogenbosch.

The aim of this design was to give the ceramic, a hard and static material, the tactility and movement that define textiles. The starting point was a perfectly smooth table cloth falling off a round table, pleating in unexpected and sensual ways. The stained version of this vase is the same table cloth but than after a successful, celebratory and therefore slightly messy dinner with loved ones.

Every vase is shaped and pleated by hand after pouring it into a mold. Therefore shapes arise which would not have been possible in mass production and impossible to get out of a mold.  By combining serial production methods and handwork we use the best of both worlds. The maker of the vase gives his or her own twist to the vase, which makes every vase unique and gives the ceramic the dexterity of a waving cloth.