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Sculpted light. Printed from earth.
COTTALITEThe studio is small, intentionally. Architects, two cities, six objects in the launch collection, twenty-five pieces per edition. The constraints are part of the practice; they keep the work close to the hands that make it, and close to the rooms that will hold it.
Each piece is made to its order. We do not stock; we do not run sales; we do not produce a piece a second time after its edition closes. Time, not volume, is the unit of work.
Our objects are printed in stoneware clay, fired once, and finished by hand. The print lines stay on the surface; that is the form's record of how it was made, and it is the geometry that decides how light reads. We do not glaze and we do not paint; the colour you see is the colour of fired earth, photographed under the warm LED that is to live inside the piece.
Each object grows from a single, continuous coil of stoneware clay extruded by a six-axis print head. The geometry is drawn in code; the coil records the speed of its own laying down. What the head pauses on, thickens. What it skips, becomes the gap that light escapes.
The form is described in software, the coil path in millimetres and degrees. Where the head pauses, the wall thickens; where it accelerates, it thins. The eroded surface of Mono / Erode is a slow piece of code, not an afterthought.
The body is a stoneware blend prepared in the studio: earth, grog, and just enough water to extrude. Each batch is kneaded by hand and rested before printing. The colour you see is the colour of fired earth.
A single bisque firing brings the clay to maturity at one thousand one hundred and eighty degrees, over thirty-six hours. No glaze, no second firing. The clay body remains porous and warm to the touch.
A deeply recessed warm LED at 2700 K is fitted, dimmed, and signed off in studio. Each piece carries its edition number on the base in pressed numerals. CE certified; UL on request.
The studio operates from two workshops, in Lubbock, Texas and in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris. The two are kept small on purpose. We accept four to six commissions per year; the launch collection is our open invitation to everyone else.
For the press, the technology, the research lineage, and the longer story of how the studio came to be, see the Journal.
The first studio. Print, fire, and finish. Editions and floor-standing objects are made here. The Texas light is cooler than you think.
The second studio. Drawing, wiring, finishing, and commissions for European clients. Where the pendants are made.
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