ZEMLYA – new ceramic furniture collection by Serhii Makhno, created in 2022. All the objects are handmade in Serhii Makhno's ceramic workshop.
THE CONCEPT
Zemlya is clay, from which Adam was created. It was used to make the first dishes and amulets. It is the origin of life, and the beginning of culture, crafts, and arts. It is also the beginning of the history of everyday life. This extraordinary collection brings humanity back to its origins.
Zemlya is Ukraine, the homeland of Serhii Makhno. It was here that the Trypillian culture emerged 7,000 years ago, giving rise to unique ceramic wonders. For all these centuries, despite the destruction of entire cultural centers, ceramic art in Ukraine has been passed down from generation to generation, albeit in a whisper, with ancient authentic techniques and secrets. They were collected, revived, and embodied in this collection by the master’s team, adding their own inventions and know-how.
Zemlya is our planet, the home of all humanity as a single cultural and historical organism. This collection is a reflection on its development through objects. The deep pre-industrial past is read here as well as the distant postmodern future. The artist offers his vision of the essence of the interior – natural and ecological. This is a visionary collection about eco-futurism, green technologies, and the design of the new millennium.
UNIQUENESS
ZEMLYA‘s peculiarity is that the handmade objects have large and intricate shapes: massive two-meter-long lamps are shining art sculptures; one hundred-kilogram biomorphic chairs resemble unprecedented beasts; long ceramic benches and tables fascinate with their perfect monolithicity.
Thanks to innovative techniques of working with clay, the craftsmen overcame the basic property of the material – the attraction to solid rounded forms. And they created something unique – a combination of flat, tubular, and curved structures. This is quite unusual for ceramics.
In addition, the ceramists used their own inventions in glazing, texturing, coloring, sintering, oxidizing, and restoring surfaces. They experimented with the atmosphere and temperature in kilns, with the combination of many production techniques in one object. Special attention should be paid to the studio’s know-how, the QUADROPODS artistic blocks, which became the basis for a significant part of the collection. MAKHNO studio masters Slavko Odarchenko, Olexandr Yarovyi, and others put a lot of passion into turning extraordinary design ideas into real unique art objects.
ZEMLYA consists of several parts: furniture, decor, lighting, mirrors, and bathroom.
