Rachel Carley established a ceramic design practice in 1994 in Auckland, New Zealand, while studying architecture. The collection developed from an interest in collecting, revising and re-casting rejected tablewares. The intention was to create a ceramics collection that brought together a motley aggregate of waifs and strays, providing an afterlife for demoted objects. The pieces can be mixed and matched in a multitude of ways to create diverse chromatic compositions on the dining table. These different combinatories enhance the aesthetic appeal of both the container and the contents. The vessels are designed to collaborate with food rather than act as a distancing, background foil to it. Why not question the ubiquity of white table ware and glory in polychromatic splendour instead? 

 

These pieces are indeed brilliant from Rachel, yet they'd be no good arriving through the mail in multiple, broken pieces... So I was engaged to design some protective, yet lovely looking transit packaging. With the large collection Rachel offers, these packs were engineered and sized to be as common as possible, to hold various styles and shapes of her ceramics to keep things nice and tidy in the studio.

 

Identity, gift wrap stickers: Inhouse

 

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