HARTMUD STUDIO

As a guarantee for our work standard and quality we make the oath…

1. To force the truth out of the clay mud with our bare hands. With complete disregard for mass-production we have chosen to build handcrafted unique and highest quality tableware that bear the signature of the maker through their distinguishing irregularities.

2. To fire our ceramics to last for 4000 years. Each piece is created in a slow and intensive hand made process that produces the highest quality of ceramic ware, finished with stoneware glaze and fired at least at 1,200°C (2,192°F) – transforming clay into vitrified stoneware – a material we call „fossil of beauty“ because of its longevity and robustness. In fact archeological findings reveal stoneware items that date from 2,500 B.C.

3. To regard form and function as one. We are dedicated to what design philosophers call „free and open form“ – best represented in the bowl, the most ancient, natural and iconic dish of mankind. It reminds us of two hands formed together to scoop water – an act our species performed in a life saving daily routine for millions of years. From these water scooping hands the potters invented the bowl as perfect symbol of the adage „form and function are one“.

4. To re-invent the culinary spaces. We aim at enriching and refining our daily experience of eating and drinking and making it sacred again: we create the tableware for a generation that regards food and drink as a heartfelt passion and who feels an uncompromising commitment to quality and environmental sustainability.

5. To use only natural materials. Put very simple: for our ceramic tableware we use only earth (best fat clay from Germany’s Westerwald region), heat (efficient techniques from sustainable energy sources) and natural stoneware glazes (silica for vitrification and various metal oxides)

Hartmud is part of the worldwide makers movement that self empowers our human talents and frees us from mass production and blind consumerism.

We call it the culinary revolution: the people and restaurants who use our tableware have transformed their habits of producing and cooking food, becoming more focused on local ingredients and spreading culinary consciousness, preserving local traditions, rediscovering ancient techniques and growing forgotten varieties.

It is Hartmuds life mission to enhance and refine this new food movement with craft tableware. We are adding the hand made dinnerware to the home cooked food sourced at local markets, we design and craft the serving ware for the coffee houses and new food eateries that redefine our cities, and we fashion the unique vases for the organic flowers picked in the wilderness.

Hartmud Studio was founded in 2016 by designer Isabella Zeiß and potter Jerome Alsoufi.

Merging natural beauty and maverick handicraft, ethereal intuition and fiery drive, the makers draw their energy from studies and work in interior design and relentless hours on the potters wheel.

Their art is enhanced by their vital passion for lucullan travel far and nigh as well as daredevil culinary adventurism.

At Hartmud Studio we are committed to serve only the gastronomic avant-garde, so we love to realize projects with food entrepreneurs who are really redefining the experience of eating and drinking.

Among our clientele you will find…

a renowned craft coffee roastery that serves their flat whites and matcha cakes in a specially designed Hartmud tableware series,

a vegetarian michelin star restaurant that uses an assortment of our vases and plates to accompany their culinary arts,

or a modern downtown deli that uses a whole collection of Hartmud serving ware to blend taste, form and colors.

In fact, with a natural demand to “take those beautiful cups home”, most of our gastronomical clients do decide to sell our collection at their restaurant.

So if you are a progressive food entrepreneur looking for a one-of-a-kind tableware series, or if you decide to exhibit our tableware collection in your store, don’t hesitate to contact us.