Dotted Bird, 2014, 75 x 125 x 42 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Crowned Bird3, 2015, 150 x 360 x 150 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Stone Vase1, 2014, 210 x 185 x 140 mm ( W x H x D ) , Porcelain

Hummingbird Jug, 2011, 120 x 87 x 65 mm (W x H x D), Porcelain, Gold Lustre

Mineral Vase White, 2013, 220 x 200 x 90 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Porcelain Flower Scarlet, 2014, 140 x 210 x 100 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Chopstick Rest, 2014, 105 x 22 x 85 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Cauliflower Container, 2015, 150 x 360 x 150 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Flower Vase, 2007, 260 x 240 x 240 mm ( W x H x D ), Porcelain

Sena Gu received her MA on the same subject from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Since then she has become a well respected design-maker (www.sena-gu.com), showing her imaginative creations at exhibitions such as Tent and 100% Design. For our 2007 edition of Do Masters, Sena showed her Lemon Squeezer - a porcelain dish with a “squeezer” in the shape of a lemon (cast in porcelain from the real thing) perched on top.

Sena Gu

Designing Women, Egg Collective Showroom, 304 Hudson Street, #307 New York, NY 10013, May 1-31, 2017

Optical Orb Vase, Twist No. 3, Evening Platter Vase, Albers Ripple Rug, Figure Eight

The 2016 Collection is a new series of non-function table top sculptures and vessels that celebrate the nuances of geometric forms and how our perception of them are influenced by the limitations of material itself. Despite the infinite possibilities inherent in mathematics and space, objects can personify a place where memory is a formed in a state of of suspension and flux.

Cairn Vase, Buoy Pod, Undulation Cone, Hazy Stripe Cone, Gradation Ripple Eye, Spiral, Hourglass Vase, Ripple Track

The 2015 collection of objects and vessels were inspired by the personification of infinity and how the meaning of forever can be materialized in both abstract and literal ways. From the smoke rings of a fire, an urn for one's ashes or a simple hat, this series explored ways in which the absence of self could be transformed into residual forms.

Smoke Ring Doorknob Vase, Smoke Ring Glove Vase, Milliner, Loop Vase, Pendulum

Undulation Cone

Ripple Rock Container

Tiered Turbine Vase

The Bracelet Flask is a wearable porcelain vessel that holds a shot’s worth of liquor. The shape was inspired by a small ring-shaped Pennsylvanian hip flask from the 19th century. Celebrate a forgotten form in American ceramics by wearing it on your wrist.

object & totem fall 2013

Object & Totem is a handmade ceramic studio founded and operated by Julianne Ahn, a graduate from The Rhode Island School of Design and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a background in Textiles and Fiber & Materials Studies.

Inspired by the nuances of meditation and form, each product is hand thrown or built to maintain its novelty, craft and memory whether functional or an intimate piece of decor. Formerly based in Philadelphia and Berlin, the studio is currently located in Brooklyn, NY and continues to evolve, with a current emphasis on classic tableware, limited edition vessels and experimental art objects.

Object & Totem

Variation 2014, white porcelain, glaze, polishing, slipcasting

The Limitless of Variation from Archetype

'From the Archetype Series' intended to utilize a sphere as a representative of unsophisticatedness, simpleness, conciseness, and flawlessness from unconscious mind along with a curved figure. Decomposition and recombination are the re-producing procedures that thousands of figures can be derived from an archetype. 'From the Archetype' tells a story of building up imperfection status through decomposition of a typical and perfect image, and of seeking the right pieces to complete my own pictorial puzzle.

Variation 2006, white porcelain, glaze, slipcasting,

The Limitless of Variation from Archetype

This is the series of Variations, to cut and connect each units made out of the slip casting to make one formation. As each units divides into pieces, they make spaces and sufaces of infinite curvatures, and unity between these pieces signifies the evolution to the new form.

The evolution of forms that is continued by divisions and unites, will be ultimately expressed through the images that reflect the lives, by the series of processes called 'Variation'.

Ceramic artist Yoon Sol studied at Seoul National University and is Assistant Professor at Beakseok University.

I’ve taken a bit of time out to explore the world of Korean pottery and probe a bit in to the countries relationship with tea ware. A lot of the objects used in the Japanese tea ceremony were sourced from parts of Korea, and this is what inspires a lot of potters in this day and age who try to mimic this particular style.

So as you can imagine I hoped to find some potters that are producing wares in the same vein, but it’s obvious to see times have changed and many are now exploring ceramics in a more artistic manner. This led me to the work of Yoon Sol who’s produced this fantastic series titled ‘From the Archetype’.

Sol Yoon