01Tableware · Stoneware
Bornholm Bowl
The studio's best-seller — a wide, shallow bowl thrown to sit comfortably in one hand, glazed in a break-tested oatmeal.
- Stoneware, cone 6 fired
- Oatmeal matte glaze
- 18cm diameter
StonewareClay
6Cone
2017Since
Studio Solberg · Est. 2016
Shaped by hand,fired by fire.
Founder of Studio Solberg — a one-woman pottery studio on Bornholm, Denmark, throwing and firing functional stoneware in small, numbered batches.
1,200+Pieces thrown
38Kiln loads fired
06Glazes in rotation
2016Studio founded
Autumn kiln load open · booking now
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01The Ceramicist
Honest, not perfect.
Focus areas
- Wheel throwing
- Glaze chemistry
- Small-batch production
- Wholesale & commissions
I trained as a graphic designer for six years before I ever touched clay. The first time I centered a lump on the wheel, I understood why nothing at a desk had felt finished the way that did.
Wheel-thrown pottery keeps the fingerprint of the hand that made it — a faint spiral, a rim that's a millimeter off true. I don't sand that out. It's the only proof a person, not a mold, made the piece.
02The Studio
From lump to finished glaze.
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Stage 01
Wedging & Centering
Air is worked out of the clay by hand, then the lump is centered dead-true on the wheel head before anything is shaped.
02
Stage 02
Throwing
The form is opened and pulled up in a few unhurried passes — too many corrections and the wall remembers it.
03
Stage 03
Trimming
Once leather-hard, the piece is turned upside down and trimmed to its final foot and wall thickness.
04
Stage 04
Bisque Firing
A slow first firing to around 1000°C hardens the clay enough to handle without dissolving in glaze.
05
Stage 05
Glazing
Glaze is mixed, tested, and applied by dipping or brushing — the last chance to change the piece before fire decides.
06
Stage 06
Glaze Firing
A final firing to cone 6 melts the glaze into glass, fusing color and clay into one surface for good.
03The Kiln
Six stages. One pot.
Keep scrolling — each stage settles into place, then flattens into the piece that leaves the studio.
STAGE 01
Raw Clay
A wedged, air-free lump of stoneware — inert until it's centered and opened on the wheel.
IN PROGRESSSTUDIO SOLBERG
04The Collection
Six forms, one studio.
02Vessel · Altered Form
Tide Vase
Thrown round, then gently altered off the wheel while still soft — no two Tide Vases dry into quite the same lean.
- Stoneware, hand-altered rim
- Celadon reactive glaze
- 24cm height
StonewareClay
6Cone
2019Since
03Tableware · Daily Use
Skagen Mug
Built around a pulled handle sized for a real hand, not a display shelf — this is the mug I actually drink from every morning.
- Stoneware, pulled handle
- Speckled clear glaze
- 340ml capacity
StonewareClay
6Cone
2016Since
04Vessel · Wood-Fired
Ash Carafe
Fired unglazed in a borrowed wood kiln twice a year — the surface is entirely accidental, drawn by flame path and falling ash.
- Stoneware, unglazed
- Natural wood-ash surface
- 1.1L capacity
StonewareClay
10Cone
2021Since
05Tableware · Serving
Ester Platter
A commission gone permanent — a wedding client asked for a serving platter and eighteen months later it's a studio staple.
- Stoneware, slab-built rim
- Sage break glaze
- 34cm diameter
StonewareClay
6Cone
2022Since
06Vessel · Reference Piece
First Cylinder
The first pot I ever centered without help, kept on the studio windowsill, slightly lopsided, not for sale.
- Earthenware, unglazed interior
- Iron-oxide wash exterior
- 14cm height
EarthenwareClay
04Cone
2016Since
05By The Kiln
A studio, not a factory.
0+Pieces thrown
0Kiln loads fired
0Glazes in rotation
0Countries shipped to
06The Craft
Measured at the wheel.
Wheel Throwing
96%
Glaze Chemistry
88%
Hand Building
82%
Kiln Firing
90%
Surface Decoration
78%
Wholesale Production
84%
07The Studio
Where the pieces get made.
08Training & Practice
Every studio teaches a habit.
Founder & Potter · Studio Solberg
2016 — PresentLeft a design studio job to build a pottery practice from a rented garage — now a proper studio with two wheels and a kiln shed.
Wheel ThrowingGlaze DevelopmentWholesale Production
Studio Assistant · Guldager Keramik, Copenhagen
2014 — 2016Mixed glazes, loaded kilns, and threw production ware for a working ceramics studio while building my own practice on the side.
Glaze MixingKiln LoadingProduction Throwing
Evening Ceramics Course · Krabbesholm Højskole
2013 — 2014A year of evening classes that turned into the only thing I wanted to do during the day — the start of everything since.
Hand BuildingWheel BasicsGlaze Theory
09Recognition
Kiln-tested, studio-approved.
Maker Spotlight
Remodelista
2023
Best in Show, Functional Ware
Nordic Craft Fair
2022
Studio Feature
The Design Files
2021
Emerging Ceramicist Grant
Danish Crafts Council
2018
10Word Of Mouth
What survives the second firing.
I ordered four mugs and got four pieces that were subtly, deliberately not identical. That's exactly what I didn't know I wanted.
Most wholesale potters chase consistency until the work goes flat. Mira's line has stayed alive through six years of restocks — that's rare.
She talked me out of the glaze I asked for and was right to. The platter she suggested instead is the one guests always ask about.
11Enquiries
Commission the next piece.
Custom sets, wholesale orders, or a spot in the next kiln load — send a note and I'll reply within a day.