Across the board Atelier Vierkant (Studio Four Corners in Flemish) is Brussels-based with a showroom that just opened in San Francisco. They specialize in what they describe as “high-profile handmade ceramics” and say that each of their designs are unique and tell a different story. In addition to planters and seats, they’ve worked internationally on large-scale buildings, private residences and exhibited at Design Week in Milan.
The studio has set both the landscape and interior design worlds alight. Praise is pouring in from publications worldwide for their hand-crafted range of large planters and ceramic seats. Their key is rich surfaces, obvious handcraft individuality and powerful form. Anyone from the craft world who believes that design cannot deliver an authentic large-scale ceramic vessel should think again. This is the perfect storm, a blend of material, design craft and very skillful, stylish, targeted marketing. It is a master class for those who want to cross over into a more sophisticated marketplace.
Below are photographs of some of their work with more information.
Garth Clark is the Chief Editor of CFile.
Above image: A large-scale vessel, “AH180,” by Atelier Vierkant, 88 x 53 x 180 cm. Photograph courtesy of the studio.
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The studio’s “BL” series, in white and black. The seats are from the studio’s January 2014 collection, a series of monolithic forms which the studio says break the boundary between spatial objects and useful furniture.
An installation of Atelier Vierkant works assembled by Duccio Grassi Architects for Milan Design Week 2014.
An image from Atelier Vierkant’s showroom in San Francisco which, according to Retail Square, opened in 2013.
From the “AHE90” series 42 x 26 x 90 cm.
From the Rosenberg installation in Winterthur, Switzerland.
From the ZR and ZRL series in black, gray and white, 46 x 45 x 51 cm.
The “PL” series, which are sets of open vases and pedestals, 80 x 14 cm.
The “CK” (smooth texture) and the “CKB” (rough texture) in white and black. Approximately 45 and 61 cm in diameter.
“BRF” planters, which the designers state are suitable for polyester liners, approximately 50 x 35 x 100 cm. Available in black, red and gray.
“CLK” vessels available in black, gray, red, white or extra white. Approximately 40 x 40 cm.
From a project for the Mariagroup studio in Beirut, Lebanon.
Banded, large-scale planters at a private residence in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
An assortment of work showing Vierkant’s rounded, monolithic and L-shaped forms.
Atelier Vierkant process photographs. All images courtesy of the studio.
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