Project Overview

Inspired by sunny summer days spent in the studio, the daisy range from Tufts is made from brightly colored porcelain. With functional pieces for the table such as bowls and egg cups and decorative items including tealights, plant pots and pendant lights, the Daisy range is made to make you feel happy!

Organisation

Tufts

Team

Ingrid Tufts
Designer + Maker

Tufts is a small studio based in Melbourne, Australia making a range of handmade ceramic tableware. Along with the Tufts range of products including the daisy and play families, Tufts specializes in small run custom café ware for the hospitality sector. Tufts is best known for projects such as the iconic porcelain Cumulus Inc take away beaker.

Project Brief

Inspired by sunny summer days spent in the studio, the daisy range from Tufts is made from brightly colored porcelain. With functional pieces for the table such as bowls and egg cups and decorative items including tealights and plant pots, the Daisy range is made to make you feel happy!

Handmade in Melbourne in the Tufts studio, this range is slip cast from reclaimed porcelain.

These pieces are food safe and can be used in a multitude of ways.

Daisy is available in Blue, Green, Magenta, Orange, Green, Yellow and custom colorways.

Project Need

Daisy is a bright happy range of products made locally using local materials.

The very inception for this product range was a request by local non-profit hospitality project scarf (http://scarfcommunity.org/) for some unique tableware pieces.

So taken were we with their enthusiasm for what they do, we got to work in the studio during the sunny height of summer and the Daisy range was borne.

Design Challenge

The design challenge here is to make a local product that is inexpensive, true to the material and identifiable as made by hand. The design makes use of the pouring process and utilizes the irregularity of the poured pattern to produce unique products.

Sustainability

This product is designed to make full use of the locally produced porcelain that we use to make our products. Material that is trimmed and waste from the thrown production pieces we make is is simply made into casting slip - saving us the more laborious process of reclaiming it into workable clay.