Trzy Wiatry is a family ceramics and woodwork studio that began in a family home in the Tuchola Forest and now works in Gdańsk too. From local clay they throw on the wheel and slip-cast pieces for the everyday table – mugs, cups, bowls – alongside things made of wood. Their simple half-glazed mugs are at Locus Artis in Gdańsk.
The idea of a family place for working with clay and wood was born many years ago. It took its full shape only recently, when the studio got its name and logo. The emblem is three winds blowing through an open house: clay, wood and working with local venues. Since then the studio has been making more ceramics than ever, much of it by Jędrek.
The studio both throws and casts. The wheel produces simple, raw forms that often leave much of the clay body exposed – and that is what gives the handmade work away at once. Casting serves a different purpose: designing new, unexpected shapes, forms that cannot be thrown on the wheel. Every piece goes through two firings, and the glazes are called Dust, Mist, Sand and Raw Clay.
Beyond tableware, Trzy Wiatry make master moulds for other ceramicists, and ceramics with logos for cafés, restaurants and hotels.
What they brought to Locus Artis.
To Locus Artis they brought, above all, mugs: simple and glazed halfway, so the bare part shows the clay. These are what they would pick for themselves from this delivery – because besides the character of the clay and the handwork, they have one more virtue: they are designed simply to be comfortable. On the shelf there are also bowls of raw clay glazed only on the inside, and a polka-dot tea set.
Every piece is a little different, and capacities are given approximately.