Slow Ceramics from Tortus Copenhagen - Remodelista
Hidden off a quiet courtyard in the heart of Copenhagen’s bustling shopping district, you’ll find the calm oasis of Tortus Copenhagen. Dramatically proportioned, yet with a clean silhouette, Tortus’s bowls await the glazing process. Much like their ceramics, Eric and Karin’s studio represents a marriage of rich tradition and modern design. Master potter and designer Eric Landon sits in the studio’s doorway, which opens onto the sunlit courtyard. For Landon, Tortus is as much about the process, “the love of making and a passion for the materials,” as it is about the end result. Landon surveys unglazed pots in the truss-style studio. Karin Blach Nielsen, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, is Tortus’s “architect of color and surface”–in other words, she’s the glaze master. Tortus’s finished vessels represent “a seamless dialogue between design and process.” The ceramics are for sale in a minimal showroom at one end of the studio. A detail of one of Karin’s richly layered glazes. A serene and stately pot from Tortus’s fluted collection, a prime example of the studio’s mix of traditional craft and modern form. Unfinished pieces await Karin’s glaze consideration. Witness Tortus’s creative process in action in a video shot from a very unexpected perspective.