Curiousa

Curiousa is a British lighting studio in Derbyshire, founded and designed by Esther Patterson, making hand-crafted glass and ceramic lights under the line it calls the colour lighting company. Every glass shade is free-blown without moulds, so no two pieces are identical and each carries the mark of the maker who blew it.

Ceramic shades are shaped by Patterson on the potter’s wheel, then slip-cast in hand-pigmented porcelain from a plaster mould she makes herself. Wooden discs are turned in Derbyshire, tassels dip-dyed in London, flex made by a family firm in Northern Ireland and lamp holders spun in Birmingham, before assembly in the studio into pendants, chandeliers and table pieces for homes and commercial interiors.