As well as designing and making ranges for sale to the public, LouiseM studio also provides a customising and commissioning service to businesses and private clients. Browse the gallery below to see some of the pieces that LouiseM studio has had a hand in the design and/or production of.
If you’re interested in having something custom made, please get in touch!
Pepe Saya is one of our oldest (and favourite) clients. We make their classic butter keepers as well as other projects that complement their expanding range, including the new butter bell, the extra large keeper for hotel clients, mixing bowls, and various promotional pieces.
Image courtesy of Pepe Saya
Guts is a creative marketing agency with some distinctive branding! In consultation with owner Kara, we developed this design that would incorporate their branding over the entire cup, using decals and a colour-matched clay body
In collaboration with Sincere Sentiments we created some urns for their funeral services. We developed a range of offerings, including two different sizes, with several different finishes.
Image courtesy of Sincere Sentiments
BULU was a collaborative project created with Stefano Di Lorenzo and Jordan Silver, two architects, and Jane Grossberg a horticulturist and art patron. It combines cast, unglazed porcelain elements with CNC routed hardwood to create these standalone growing pods that can also be used as a screening device. LouiseM studio was tasked with producing the first few batches of prototypes for their installation at the Workshopped Exhibition at the Australian Design Centre.
Image credits to Hamish McIntosh
Masque bowls for Almah Skincare. Collaborating was as easy as having them choose a colour and finish for the bowls, then using their artwork to get a custom stamp printed for the interior of the bowls.
Image credits to Elysse Filipe, courtesy of Almah Skincare
Fur Tales is a small company set up by two women working in the pet industry who wanted to start their own business that would introduce some bespoke items to the space. Enter this collaborative project; our limited edition batches of pet bowls. We worked with them to develop four different limited edition patterns on two different sizes of pet bowl
Image courtesy of Fur Tales
Our house number tiles are by their nature bespoke. We consult with clients on the desired size and shape of each tile, and which plants they would like embedded
In late 2015 Black Star Pastry opened a pop-up store in Kinokuniya in the Sydney CBD, and during this time their business had a heavy focus on local producers, so they decided to team up with us to develop some plates for first their pop-up store and eventually their other locations as well. We produced several different sizes of cake and pastry plates for them
Image courtesy of Black Star Pastry, credit unknown
We’ve done various custom jobs, working with clients to tweak our existing designs with simple additions of custom or personalised stamping. These pieces were made as gifts for family at Lunar New Year, with a pattern of meaningful animals and characters stamped around the bowls.
Custom tea-light diffuser commissioned by a client to surprise their partner for their birthday. Requested designs were ‘wolf, owl and bull’ with the interpretation of design left open. After a brief consultation Louise moved forward with these designs
Louise was approached by paper artist Lisa Rodden in 2014 about producing a range of bud vases that would complement her range of artworks. We worked on 3 sizes, and decorated them with a colour-matched palette of 8 different underglaze colours to create this range for Koskela
Image credit Lisa Rodden
Artists and curator Lisa Tilse was putting together some pieces for a group show at Gaffa Gallery in 2014, she commissioned Louise to customise some of her pieces so they could become a part of Lisa’s work. By using a muted colour palette and inserting holes into the pieces Louise was able to provide a base for Lisa’s work.
Image credit Lisa Tilse, photo courtesy of the artist
For artist Ben Quilty’s 2014 solo show at Saatchi in London, he decided to add something a little different to this show. Based on the Toby jug, these pieces are an exploration of psychological states. Ben sculpted some faces onto antique jugs sourced from rural second hand stores and moulds were then made from the jugs. At this stage of the process Louise stepped in, manufacturing and decorating the casts.
Image credit Mim Sterling, photo courtesy of the artist
These ‘rocket cups’ were developed in collaboration with Alexander Withey, with Louise working with Alex to develop the shape through prototypes at different scales using sculpted and 3D printed models. Once the design was finalised Louise produced these four cups using the blend technique and custom stamping.
The Rose of Australia pub in Erskineville was looking to add some high tea offerings to their venue and wanted to create an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed service. Louise worked on the graphic design of these pieces, then getting the images printed as decals and firing them on to some hospitality grade wares, as well as altering some pieces to make them into cake stands.