Utopia & Utility

Utopia & Utility is a studio founded in 2012 by Pia Wüstenberg, a graduate of the Design Products programme at the Royal College of Art, to nurture, protect and connect European craft skills. Every piece begins in the studio in Kitee, North Karelia, Finland, and is made by hand in workshops across Europe: mouth-blown glass from a family-run glassworks in Bohemia, wood turned in Finland, hand-spun metal and raku-fired ceramic.

Its signature is the Stacking Vessel, a functional sculpture assembled from glass, wood, metal and ceramic elements that stack into a single composition. The collections are sold through more than 80 stockists worldwide, among them Finnish Design Shop, Cavaliero Finn and Pamono, and the studio works directly with individual makers, travelling to their workshops to shape each collection by hand.