Noma Dinnerware Sets

Scaled drawings are used to study as well as to communicate with the client at the beginning of the project. They are a starting point to study the proportions of the individual piece as well as the set as a whole when the plates are stacked. It is also a way to show the client the feelings I want to inject into the pieces.

These samples in a smaller scale are made with the same glaze, the clay body and the firing cycle the final products will have. The main objectives are to study how the glaze works with the clay body, in terms of the fluidity (how the glaze runs on the surface and what pattern it creates), the opacity (how much of the clay underneath it will show) and the surface quality (the glossiness, the stability and the strength).

These bisqued plates are already glazed and ready to be fired in an electric kiln.

These glazed and fired pieces are ready to be used. This is one set consisting of the dinner plate, the pasta bowl, the salad plate, and the soup bowl. The glaze patterns are organic and unique to each piece.

I was commissioned to design and create 10 sets of 4-peice custom dinnerware for a private client for her second home. The client was looking for something in the style of Noma series, whose finish and application celebrates the contrast of the rough texture of the naked clay with the glossiness of each organic and unique pattern made by the glaze.

The plates were made in speckled brown stoneware. The manganese in the clay show through as dark brown freckles after firing.

Project Specs: 10 sets of 4-piece custom dinnerware consisting of 12" dinner plates, 9" diameter salad plates, 10.5" diameter pasta bowls and 6.75" diameter soup bowls. All pieces were thrown on a wheel in brown stoneware with manganese speckles. They are partially glazed in the interior in a glossy milky-white glaze in a swirl motion and fired in an electric kiln at 2200F.

2017
ceramic