Designer Hella Jongerius (1963) has become known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and the contemporary.

After graduating Eindhoven Design Academy in 1993 she started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, through which she produces her own projects and projects for clients such as Maharam (New York), Royal Tichelaar Makkum (The Netherlands), Vitra (Basel) and IKEA (Sweden).

Her work has been shown at museums and galleries such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York), MoMA (New York), the Design Museum (London), Galerie KREO (Paris) and Moss gallery (New York).

Flower Pyramid – 2008 – Material: Ceramics, glaze (faience), hand-painted decorations, metal, straps – Limited Edition

The traditional replica and the four inspirations in a series of 7. De average size is 400x400x1500 mm.
The product was formed from local clay and fired. A tin glaze, created in-house, was applied to the fired pots.

The painted decoration was applied on top of the raw glaze and then the product was carefully fired a second time.

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