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Modern Heirlooms
Modern Heirlooms with Everyday Charm
Born the daughter of a painter and an organic dairy farmer, Molly was raised to be creatively industrious. Using her imagination and love of drawing, Molly makes everything from her well known idiosyncratic ceramics to quirky pen-and-ink drawings. Her craft is finely honed, her designs whimsically literal and pop-culturally on-point.
Working from her home studio, Molly began making her living as a full-time studio potter in 2008. Her formal education in ceramics and drawing resulted in the development of her signature style. Making contemporary ceramics inspired by history, Molly’s career as a studio potter quickly garnered a loyal following. Molly’s designs have expanded beyond tableware to a wide range of lifestyle products, and she is actively building more lifestyle collections of home goods to bring her modern yet traditional designs to the contemporary home.
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Grounded in studio pottery tradition The studio pottery tradition is grounded in the handmade. Molly’s forms and surfaces for her designs come from her many hours at the potter’s wheel and with paint and brush. Molly works hard to design both surface both surface designs and prototypes for forms using the same techniques she would use to make a piece by hand. Many of Molly’s designs are inspired by her time as an apprentice to a studio potter in the British tradition. Molly inherited a timeless sense of shape and surface design from her mentors with a strong English aesthetic sensibility. All of Molly’s designs reflect the integrity of the handmade and strive to function as beautiful and useful everyday products that are both familiar and new.
Molly’s roots as a studio potter are reflected in her design career as well as in her fine art career with work represented in major art collections and museums all over the world. Molly’s authenticity as an artist, a designer, and most recently as an author and illustrator bring a depth and richness to her collaborations. 4
Bio
Trendsetter. Arbiter of style.
Molly’s foray into design began in 2010 with her initial product collaboration with Philadelphia-based retailer Anthropologie. The success of this first project has blossomed to include over 300 products featured in all Anthropologie stores worldwide, with many more collaborations to come. Molly’s designs have become iconic signatures for this trendsetting lifestyle retailer, and this strong and successful relationship has inspired collections with more than 20 brand partners worldwide. Molly’s designs continue to set trends for color, form, and surfaces across product categories.
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Molly has been collaborating with Anthropologie since 2010, developing over 400 products across multiple home categories. The majority of Molly’s products have been homewares with the top selling items in bakeware and tableware. Molly’s most popular products at Anthropologie are her juice glasses, with over 17 designs in the collection since 2011, and growing!
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Brand Partnerships: Anthropologie
Molly began collaborating with Twig NY in 2014 on several collections of bone china reflecting Molly’s love of traditional blue and white ware. With several new collections introduced each year, Twig New York will be expanding the brand partnership with exciting new materials and designs in the near future. Molly’s most popular collection to date has been Blue Bird.
Brand Partnerships: Twig New York
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Big Wheel Press is a letterpress printer local to Molly’s studio. She has been collaborating with Big Wheel Press since 2015 to create a line of whimsical greeting cards that reflect Molly’s love of the history of tableware as well as her love of inspirational sentiments. Molly was named one of Stationery Trends Magazine’s top ten designers to watch in 2017.
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Brand Partnerships: Big Wheel Press
Chasing Paper is a New York based company known for their removable wallpaper. The ability to change wallpaper on a regular basis with easily removable designs means that your home can get a refresh any time! Molly’s designs have been well received since her first collection launched in 2015. Molly’s wallpaper designs have been featured in Martha Stewart Living, Domino Magazine and Wall Street Journal.
Brand Partnerships: Chasing Paper
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Molly has teamed up with Peking Handicraft to develop a line of top of bed with an initial collection of quilts that launches at market in January 2018.
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Brand Partnerships: Peking Handicraft
In 2017 Molly partnered with Hester & Cook to bring a line of paper tabletop to life. High quality prints on paper for the kitchen and table reflect Molly’s signature blue and white designs. Following the success of the debut collection, Molly’s holiday line for Hester & Cook launched in August of 2017.
Brand Partnerships: Hester & Cook
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Molly’s first collection for Garnet Hill debuted in fall of 2017 with several more collections to come in home decor, bedding and kids apparel in 2018 and 2019.
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Brand Partnerships: Garnet Hill
Molly teamed up with 145 year-old stationery and gift company CR Gibson to develop an extensive line of kitchen, gift, stationery and entertaining products that launched in Atlanta Gift Mart in January of 2017. The success of the initial collaboration has led to more products, expanding the line into travel accessories and hydration products launching in January 2018 in Atlanta.
Brand Partnerships: CR Gibson
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Molly has teamed up with Makers Collective to develop a line of top of bed with an initial collection of quilts that launched at market in the fall of 2017 and a second collection expanding to decorative pillows and duvets launching in early 2018.
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Brand Partnerships: Makers Collective
Molly is excited to offer customizable stationery product through online partner Mixbook starting in 2017. Molly’s signature patterns are now templates for photos, photo books, wedding invitations and more!
Brand Partnerships: Mixbook
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Molly’s foray into designing for kids home is with Land of Nod. The collaboration began with a holiday collection in 2016 and led to a full line of home decor, lighting and bedding hitting shelves in spring of 2017. Molly has additional bedding and home decor launching in 2018 at the Land of Nod.
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Brand Partnerships: Land of Nod
In 2015 Molly partnered with Cheeky Home to launch an exclusive promotion featuring a beautiful paper tabletop collection for Target. The mission of the collaboration was to raise awareness around hunger in America through a partnership with the charity Feeding America. Through combined press and marketing efforts, Molly Hatch and Cheeky were able to donate over 100,000 meals through Feeding America thanks to the success of this product collaboration. .
Brand Partnerships: Cheeky
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Molly is working with home decor and tableware leader Home Essentials and developed several tableware, glassware and home decor collections that will debut at the Atlanta Gift Market in January of 2018.
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Brand Partnerships: Home Essentials
Starting in 2017, Molly teamed up with Andover Fabric company to start a new line of quilting fabrics. With a nod to Molly’s narrative artwork found on her tableware at Anthropologie, these collections provide crafters and quilters alike with a wide range of designs to choose from.
Signature Collection: Flourish
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Molly is excited to announce an extensive partnership with John Lewis in the UK to launch a homewares collection in the fall of 2019.
Molly has teamed up with RSVP / Sellers to develop a yearly calendar for 2019!
51PERCENT
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Upcoming Collaborations
Starting in 2018, 51 Per Cent and Molly Hatch will be working together to bring new tableware collections to the UK and Europe.
Bouquiet in a Book: Thinking of You
Bouquiet in a Book: Happy Day
Journey in Color: Moroccan Motifs
Abrams Noterie, Feb 2018
Abrams Noterie, March 2018
Chronicle Books, 2015
Journey in Color: Scandanavian
New Ceramic Surface Design
A Teacup Collection
Chronicle Books, 2016
Quarry Publishers, 2014
Chronicle Books, 2013
Authored Books
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Editorial Reviews
“Looking at the family china, full of memory and meaning to her personally, she was driven back to the museums where she first studied as a young artist. Her research led to a new book, A Passion for China. And in the process she learned much about the subtle but powerful influence homeware has on us all - including what we search for to replace pieces that are lost or broken.”
- The Guardian (UK)
“Artist and ceramicist Molly Hatch makes whimsical, charming, yet undeniably special pottery... In her new, beautifully illustrated book, A Passion for China: A Little Book About the Objects We Eat From, Live with and Love, she explores the roots of her own fascination with fine ceramics (mainly objects in her grandmother’s house) as well as the more immediate A Passion For China September Publishing, Oct. 2017
enjoyment that well-used porcelain can present (many of her grandmother’s things were chipped from being used and not cabineted away - imbuing each piece with loving, happy memories).”
- The Globe and Mail (Canada) 22
Molly Hatch’s aesthetic is inspired by her love of history. All of Molly’s designs reintroduce traditional historic patterns to the contemporary home with exciting new palettes and a reflection of the handmade. This love of history and the contemporary makes for instant heirlooms-- designs that fit into homes that range from modern to traditional. Aiming to provide the consumer with product that is functional on a daily basis, special, beautiful and collectible, Molly is excited to work with new brands on collaborations in multiple categories.
Categories available for brand licensing include: • tableware • gift • decorative • home furnishings • accessories • apparel • furniture • textiles
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Licensing Korea
United States
United Kingdom
Infiniss Licensing Jason Lee: jason.lee@infiniss.com Managing Director / Brand Management Infiniss Co Ltd Korea t: 82-2-2263-3233
Moxie & Company Licensing www.moxieco.com Laura Becker: lbecker@moxieco.com Arlene Scanlan: ascanlan@moxieco.com United States t: (203) 259-2729
Boom Licensing www.boomlicensing.com Anna Cartwright: anna@boomlicencing.com United Kingdom t: +44 7960 312660
Japan Copyrights Asia David Buckley: info@copyrights.co.jp Japan t: 03-3377-8300
Contact
Website: www.mollyhatch.com
@mollyhatch
Molly Hatch
For more information, or to explore opportunities to work with Molly Hatch, please contact Molly’s brand licensing agency:
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