Design Central is delighted to be in collaboration with Studio Lucy McMillan. Bespoke tiles, handmade here in New Zealand.
These stoneware tiles are individually hand built from a clay slab that has been layered, hand rolled and inlayed. Each tile is unique, showing the artist hand and unrepeatable. Using locally sourced stoneware blends, hand stained pigments and finally fired to vitrification at cone 6 (1220 degrees), making them strong and durable, they are destined to one day be dug up in the ruins.
Artist and potter Lucy McMillan is inspired by agateware, an 17th century pottery process. It’s name refers to the marbleised and striated patterns of the semi-precious stones that it was emulating.
We treat each project as a bespoke process, discussing site and application, style and fabrication. Tile module, size, colour and glaze will be discussed individually for each project. We will also help facilitate specialist installation with tilers that understand this unique product.
WORDS FROM THE ARTIST
Clay has a beautiful elegance, the way it changes state from humble mud to a solid object in a firing.
I’ve been working through painterly ideas in my ceramics, and in particular, I like the edges, the corners, and the multi faceted forms I’m able to make with clay.
I like thinking about clay as a culture that holds a past. How each loose grain and mineral has filtered through time. Transforming clay dug up from the ground feels a bit like alchemy. Like magic. It connects me to history.
Studio Lucy McMillan hand built tiles are available exclusively through Design Central.
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