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IGNIS

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NOELANI RUTZ

“Ignis” perpetuates firewood, a beatiful yet ephemeral material into long lasting objects by being translated into a new material, resulting in an experimental collection of casted ceramic objects.

After using the wood as a mold for the clay, objects are built from the clay slaps with their new surface. Using fire as a connecting and guiding element, the clay objects are fired with the ancient method of pit firing. Pit or barrel firing is the oldest known method for firing pottery. The unfired pots are placed in sawdust and the small combustibles and a big fire is started on top with bigger logs. Once they have burnt down, a lid is placed onto, starving the fire of oxygen. This is called a reduction firing which leads to heavily carbonised, deep black surfaces.

Origin: Zurich Switzerland

NOELANI RUTZ

“Ignis” perpetuates firewood, a beatiful yet ephemeral material into long lasting objects by being translated into a new material, resulting in an experimental collection of casted ceramic objects.

After using the wood as a mold for the clay, objects are built from the clay slaps with their new surface. Using fire as a connecting and guiding element, the clay objects are fired with the ancient method of pit firing. Pit or barrel firing is the oldest known method for firing pottery. The unfired pots are placed in sawdust and the small combustibles and a big fire is started on top with bigger logs. Once they have burnt down, a lid is placed onto, starving the fire of oxygen. This is called a reduction firing which leads to heavily carbonised, deep black surfaces.

Origin: Zurich Switzerland

 

DESIGNER

Noelani Rutz

ARTISAN / PRODUCER

Zurich, Switzerland

DIMENSIONS

11 x 11 x 28 cm

PRODUCTION TIME

One-of-a-kind

WEIGHT

-

MATERIAL

Burned Clay

ABOUT

 

Noelani Rutz

Noelani Rutz is a Swiss product designer based in Zurich. She graduated with honors from ECAL/école cantonale d‘art de Lausanne, where she worked as a teaching assistant the following two years. After gaining experience working for Shigeki Fujishiro in Tokyo and Jörg Boner productdesign in Zürich, she is now focusing on her own practice. With a keen eye for detailed simplicity, her hands on approach commits to a thoughtful combination of traditional craft, material research and pragmatic solutions.