We are excited to share that we have two of our most popular pop-up designers returning to GUILD. Three Cups of Tea Ceramics and Pudunkart are now selling some of their classic hits as well as brand new pieces in-store for a limited time!
Pudunkart is designed by Katie. As well as being a jewellery maker and freelance designer, she is also a full-time designer. Every aspect of her life is consumed by design, and that’s just how she likes it. She’s driven by her passion and the enjoyment she gets out of creating designs that are equally as beautiful as they are functional.
Her designs are bright, fun and cute, often drawing on nostalgic influences. She likes using shared experiences and memories to trigger emotions, allowing a personal connection between herself and her work, her work and the public, and the public and herself.
Three Cups of Tea ceramics are made by Elise Johnston and Karen Taylor O’Neill.
Each piece of Three Cups of Tea ceramics is unique & durable. It is handmade in our Dunedin home studio. The process begins by making the original shapes in clay. A plaster mold is then taken from these pieces. Each item is slip cast using the plaster molds to replicate the originals and clay pieces are joined, altered and smoothed. The work is fired two or three times during the glazing and decorating stages. The images are drawn from personal experiences, they reflect our love of wild places, and the capricious nature of both ceramics and life. The images are originals which are then printed onto ceramic decals, applied and fired onto the pieces.
The name Three Cups of Tea refers to a proverb of the Himalayan Balti people that says “The first time you share tea you are a stranger. The second time you take tea you are an honoured guest & the third time you share a cup of tea you become family.” We feel this expresses our feelings about the importance of taking time to share a cup of tea, and how relationships develop and grow over shared experiences. Our designs are made with the rituals of tea, friends & family always in mind.
Three Cups of Tea Ceramics and Pudunkart will be in-store from November 2 up until Christmas.