CERAMICS EDIT Arddun Stores have teamed up with the incredible Instagram account @ihavethisthingwithceramics, to present a carefully curated edit of exclusive work from nine ceramic artists. Together we want to celebrate the skill, craftsmanship and beauty of ceramics. Part exhibition and part shopping experience we will have unique and exclusive pieces of work from nine amazing ceramic artists. The month-long pop-up exhibition will run from October 4th – 31st.
ABOUT ARDDUN STORES Arddun Stores is a luxury homewares and lifestyle store founded in London and situated on the 4th floor of Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge and online at arddunstores.com. Arddun began and still operates a wholesale agency and through our close friendship and partnership with the Harvey Nichols team we opened our store in August 2020. Our love of working with small and unique brands across homewares, skincare, fragrance, fashion & accessories led us to start Arddun Stores and being fans of all things homewares, we started to get some really interesting and unique ceramic work into the store and built up a reputation for our excellent ceramics offering. Posting pictures on our Instagram account led us to becoming friends with Jess from @ihavethisthingwithceramics…
ABOUT I HAVE THIS THING WITH CERAMICS I Have This Thing With Ceramics was started by Jessica Charge in January 2018. She got the Instagram bug when her personal account was featured in Marie Claire Hong Kong back in 2011! As a lifelong fan of pottery Jess wanted a place to collate and share all the amazing ceramics she saw on Instagram. With over 112k followers Jess obviously has a keen eye for unique pieces! She loves to share the work of independent artists from all over the world to help give their business a boost. Jess is a graphic designer and has kept creative control over her grid as she doesn’t offer paid posts, preferring to share pieces that she loves. The pop-up will bring her account to life!
A ceramics studio based in Paris, run by Marie Wiart and Lucas Le Roy. After a long history of working together, including jobs in a screenprinting shop and as freelance graphic designers, they started experimenting with clay together as a side hustle. It’s a way for them to unite all of the mediums they love like photography, product design and illustration. Inspired by the beauty of simple moments like holidays, friends, family or even a nice diner, their work has a poetic nostalgia. Working mostly with sandstone and sometimes porcelaine, they use totally unique slip casts and then all designs are hand painted. Marie Wiart Lucas Le Roy
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After almost 10 years being a photographer and spending way too much time editing on his computer, Théo Tourne decided to get his hands dirty, literally. He started taking ceramics classes and has never looked back. He especially loves making unique pieces - usually sandstone vases - thrown on the wheel then painted by hand in bright colours. His pottery studio is located in Paris though most of his inspiration takes roots in the French Riviera where he was born. When life gets tough in the city, he imagines himself living in the Noailles villa or in any fauvist landscape and everything ends up falling into place.
Essex based Hardwick creates all her designs at her home studio. She finds inspiration from patterns and motifs found within ancient craft objects and textiles, made by communities that attributed great expressive power to visual things. Working with stoneware and terracotta clays Lydia’s pots are made by a method called ‘coiling’, where you hand-build upwards, starting with the base of the pot, using sausages of clay that you blend together as you go. My plates tend to be rolled out and formed by hand, and my platters are pressmoulded. The surface decoration techniques utilise slips (liquid clay) that are stained with oxides to create different colours.
All Lola’s ceramics are hand made in Paris, starting as a hobby, making ceramics quickly became Moreau’s full-time job. Her designs are created using Sandstone, for its raw and natural appearance. There are many varieties, with different shades and textures, which Lola likes to change regularly, depending on the renderings she is looking for or the glazes she wants to apply. A lot of research is done when choosing a finishing glaze however Moreau always maintains an element of randomness resulting in gorgeous and totally unique tableware.
Photos in workshop by c.rosenstrauch
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Emma de Clercq is a London-based ceramicist. As a novice potter, Brutes Ceramics was originally intended to be a creative outlet and general antidote to screen-time from Emma’s day job in digital media. Emma is now one of the founding members of Clay Collective, a co-operatively run pottery studio in East London. Brutes Ceramics are mostly hand-built, minimal and functional pieces with a brutalist edge.
Based in the South of France Mayeras re-discovered her love of pottery during lockdown whilst in her father’s workshop, where each piece is now handmade using molding, turning or forming techniques. Working with earthenware each piece is finished with bright and joyful glazes. Inspiration for this collection has come from the shapes and colours of 60s and 70s designs, pop art and the atmosphere of the South of France. Lola tried to cultivate these inspirations by juxtaposing objects, diverting functions and revisiting forms.
SGW Lab is a London-based ceramics and porcelain studio which is run by 6 full-time members of staff. All items are made by hand in an effort to combat the modern world’s reliance on mass production. Heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts design movement their slogan is “The Art of People” which is from a William Morris quote and refers to art being an expression of pleasure in human labour. For the pop-up they have produced a selection of ceramics in two exclusive colour ways.
Sophie Farrar is a ceramic artist currently living and working in Staffordshire, England. After studying Fine Art, Sophie moved to San Francisco where she first discovered ceramics. Her pieces are produced in porcelain and stoneware using traditional slab building techniques, manipulating sheets of clay to piece together her forms. From concept to realisation, great importance is placed on process, often using painstaking techniques to achieve her unique texture and pattern.Through this slow method of making, Sophie aims to create treasured pieces that feel minimal and controlled whilst retaining subtle signs of the hand.
Photos by Lee Robbins
October 4th – 31st In-store + online: Arddun Stores 4th Floor, Harvey Nichols 109-125 Knightsbridge London, SW1X 7RJ arddunstores.com @arddunstores @ihavethisthingwithceramics