In 2020, designer Yulia Pereverzeva suddenly became interested in pottery and now just as easily and naturally helps others fall in love with the process of creating clay decor.
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Julia Pereverzeva. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Maju Pottery Workshop is another story about a dream. Designer Yulia Pereverzeva studied at Sochi State University with a degree in environmental design. After graduating from the university in 2012, together with her friend Olga Danilova, Yulia organized the design studio E (Your) Design. So the “crumbs”, as the designers call themselves, worked together until the spring of 2021, and then conversations began to hover around the studio that the friends’ paths diverged. But there was no drama, everything turned out to be much nicer: Julia fell in love — with pottery.
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Just jokingly, Julia took up a new business, propagandizing that new art objects easily appear from “blunders”. The designer created a space for creative searches and experiments spontaneously: it took only a month of work for Yulia to create a workshop. A suitable room was found in the building of the art fund, the total area of the halls was only 35 m2, but the walls were without repair and were fraught with ”surprises”. The first is a hole of unknown purpose in the ceiling. The second one turned out to be more pleasant: a fireplace of unknown authorship remained from the old owners.
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
This fireplace, which Julia decorated with flowing masonry bricks, became one of the ”pillars” of the interior, responsible for the fire. So all the elements of nature are intertwined in space: the process of modeling itself is built on the combination of clay and water, and the feeling of air and space is created by the natural shades of the walls and open shelving with the works of Julia and the guests of the workshop.
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
“Nature guides me. Its asymmetrical forms may not be the same, but they are equal,” the designer admits. – Line, spot, color, light, shape, texture — everything is the simplest and most obvious. And in all this there is some kind of frenzied harmony and taste””
Yulia approached the function of the workshop with imagination: here you can not only take a master class and leave with pleasant impressions and a material reminder of them, but also arrange a photo shoot for which the designer has allocated four separate zones: behind the potter’s wheel, by the fireplace and in the workshop part itself. In addition, the creative process can easily be combined with a festive event and spend any holiday in the walls of the workshop.
Photo: Mikhail Chekalov
