KERAMIK

KERAMIK is a Greek studio and brand in Thessaloniki that prints furniture, lighting and vases in clay. Its name comes from Kerameikos, the potters’ quarter of ancient Athens and the root of the word ceramics, and the project was started by Theodore Samaras as an offshoot of Framed Visualisation, the visualisation office he founded in 2014.

Pieces are drawn by hand, modelled in 3D, sliced and printed in stoneware clay before firing, so each table, pendant or vase keeps the ribbing of its own deposition path. Firing rather than moulding gives the collection geometries that casting cannot reach: monolithic tables, ribbed lampshades and a catalogue running from Monolith and Flume to Gourd and Rosebud. The studio prints to order in Thessaloniki, arguing that clay is the most local and recyclable way to make design objects.