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Traditional Yet Modern
Inspiring designs 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 300 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. The simplicity of the letterpress color palette is ubiquitous with Molly’s palette and the texture of the letterpress is in line with Molly’s ceramic processes.
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Brand Partnerships: Big Wheel Press
Chasing Paper is a small sister-owned company based out of New York that creates removable wallpaper. The ability to change wallpaper on a regular basis with easily removable designs means that Molly’s daughter’s room can grow and change as her daughter’s tastes do! Molly loves the versatility of the low-tack papers. New collections are launched every year, and the most popular to date is Bright Star.
Brand Partnerships: Chasing Paper
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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.
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Brand Partnerships: Cheeky
In 2014 Molly partnered with KAF Home to bring a line of kitchen textiles to life. High quality cotton and linens for the kitchen and table reflect Molly’s signature patterns. With several collections already on shelves and more to come in 20162017.
Brand Partnerships: KAF Home
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Starting in 2014, Molly teamed up with Anna Griffin’s Blend Fabric company to start her first 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 in each collection.
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Signature Collection: French Hen
In addition to a collection of floral tea towels and mugs, Molly has teamed up with Laurelbox to create a holiday decor collection for 2016. Molly’s first collection for Garnet Hill debuts in fall of 2017 with more to come in home decor, tableware, bedding and kids apparel.
Launching in summer 2017, Molly has an extensive line of stationery and gift products exclusive to Madison Park Greetings.
Molly has teamed up with 145 year old stationery and gift company CR Gibson to develop a large line of kitchen, gift, stationery and entertaining products launching at Atlanta Gift Mart in January of 2017. Molly’s foray into designing for kids lifestyle and home! Two collections launching Holiday 2016 and Spring 2017 and more to come! Molly is working on a forthcoming book all about her love of tableware and ceramic history. To be published spring of 2017.
Upcoming Collaborations
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Journey in Color: French Baroque
Journey in Color: Moroccan Motifs
Journey in Color: Scandanavian
Chronicle Books, 2015
Chronicle Books, 2015
Chronicle Books, on shelves Sept. 2016
New Ceramic Surface Design
A Teacup Collection
A Teacup Collection Notecards
Quarry Publishers, 2014
Chronicle Books, 2013
Chronicle Books, 2013
Authored Books
Modern riffs on old ideas - Arts - The Boston Globe
6/5/12 12:00 PM
Arts Uppercase, 2014
GALLERIES
New York Times, 2016
Bazaar, 2013
London Design Festival, 2013
Modern riffs on old ideas By Cate McQuaid | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Design Sponge, 2013
MAY 30, 2012
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No art is simply, blithely contemporary. That would be like saying our parents had no influence on us. Today’s art responds to and reacts against yesterday’s art. “Covet: Art + Objects,’’ an ambitious show of 40 works at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, is an exhibition of homage. Curators Leslie Ferrin and Sienna Patti invited artists to visit museums, talk to curators, and find inspiration, and then to riff on the works that inspired them.
Home, 2014
Ferrin Gallery specializes in three-dimensional
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Ceramics work, particularly ceramics, Monthly, and the clay 2012 works
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in “Covet” stand out. Painters have a tougher
“Covet: Art + Objects’’ at Ferrin Gallery
time of it, attempting to respond in original ways
Boston Globe, 2012
Decor8, 2013
Pottery Making, 2013
in Pittsfield.
to artists such as Courbet and Sargent when the discourse about painting has moved so far since they were at work.
Press
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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 • publishing • accessories • apparel • furniture • textiles 16
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: Moxie & Company www.moxieco.com Laura Becker: lbecker@moxieco.com Arlene Scanlan: ascanlan@moxieco.com 993 Post Road East Westport, Connecticut 06880 t: (203) 259-2729
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Coloring Book Sample Page Please enjoy coloring this sample page from Molly’s forthcoming Journey in Color: Scandinavian Designs for Chronicle Books. Feel free to remove the page and color to your heart’s content!
Color Journey: Scandinavian Designs is Molly’s fourth coloring book in her successful series published by Chronicle Books. Distinguished by signature pops of accent color and designs, Journey in Color coloring books provide an immersive creative escape in a uniquely elegant package. This new book in the series features designs inspired by art, embroidery, and textiles from Norway and Sweden. With richly detailed designs on every page, this is a coloring experience as beautiful as it is relaxing. Enjoy!
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