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Terrazzo
Terrazzo is the work Tantri Mustika first became known for, and where her fascination with making clay look like marble or stone began.
How it started
She built the speckle into the clay itself, inlaying fragments of marbled, coloured clay through each slab. It started with a single experimental wall vase.
“I created something I hadn’t seen before – something I would want to own myself.”
Tantri Mustika
Four series
Four series followed. The Classics set the visual language. Garniture moved towards more complex forms drawn from historical vessels. Relics turned to hand-building methods like coiling, and to traditional pottery shapes with negative space. Vice Versa inverted the Classics.
“I wanted to create works that commanded their own presence, even when empty.”
Tantri Mustika
As featured in Label Magazine, The Design Files and Broadsheet
Terrazzo now
Terrazzo was made in production runs over several years. The marbled clay she developed for it is still in her work today, though terrazzo is no longer a collection of its own.
One small terrazzo piece is in the shop now, the Terrazzo Vase.
From the archive
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Terrazzo vessel -
Terrazzo vases in pink -
Terrazzo arch vase -
Terrazzo at home -
Unearthed, Metro Tunnel, 2022
Relics
For Relics, Tantri turned to coiling and other hand-building methods, and to traditional pottery shapes. Those forms carry on in the Marbled Relic vases she makes today.
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Relic vase with gold lustre -
Footed Relic bowl -
A pair of footed Relic bowls -
Relic vessel in green marbled clay -
Relic vessel in blue marbled clay -
Relic vessel with gold lustre -
Relic vase with gold lustre handles
