CLARAVAL EXPLORES A UNIQUE WAY OF CREATING BEAUTIFUL FORM BY TRANSFORMING THE HARMONIC RELATIONSHIPS OF SOUND INTO SCULPTURAL FORM.

STORIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES BECOME PHYSICAL, FREQUENCIES AND HARMONIES TAKE FORM IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE.

OUR PROCESS BEGINS WITH A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SOUND AND SHAPE BEFORE CONTINUING INTO THE HANDS OF OUR SKILLED ARTISANS, WHO GIVE EACH PIECE LIFE THROUGH TRADITIONAL CRAFT.

ROOTED IN NATURE AND CULTURE, WE EXPLORE THE SCULPTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF SOUND - A LANGUAGE SO DEEPLY CONNECTED TO IDENTITY.

AT CLARAVAL, THE MEETING OF CRAFT AND CODE IS REDEFINING HOW CERAMIC ART CAN BE BOTH SEEN AND FELT.

DESIGNED AND MADE IN PORTUGAL

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A place. A voice. A specific moment in time. Every piece begins with a recording, then transformed into 3 dimensional form. Sound that existed in time, now permanent in clay.

SÃO PAIO COLLECTION

41°16'53"N 8°43'53"W

SoundMade Ceramic from the Sao Paio collection

SÃO PAIO

BRUTAL BEAUTY

São Paio is a brutal and beautiful place. A granite headland pushed into the Atlantic, exposed to wind, salt, and long cycles of impact.

These forms come from a place of impact. Atlantic swell, wind, salt, repeated over time. The geometry is direct, surfaces are pushed in, not decorated. Nothing is softened by hand, like the headland itself.

BRUTAL BEAUTY

Percebes cling to the rocks at São Paio like scars. Hard, knuckled shells packed tight against the granite, shaped by waves that never stop testing them. Each one grows where it shouldn’t survive, feeding in the spray, holding on through impact and pull.

PENICHE COLLECTION

39°21'11"N 9°23'16"W

Peniche, Portugal, Karst rock formations

A GEOLOGIC PARADISE

STRATIFIED CLIFFS FORMED BY ANCIENT SEAS AND CONSTANT ATLANTIC EROSION, REFORMED INTO EXTRAORDINARY SCULPTURE BY KARSTIC ACTION.

FORBIDDEN FRUITS

MAGNETIC ATTRACTION

SoundMade Ceramic from the Forbidden Fruits collection, with Béatriz Santos

BORN FROM MAGNETIC ATTRACTION

FOZ COLLECTION

WHER THE RIVER DOURO MEETS THE ATLANTIC

At Foz do Douro, Porto, the great river finally meets the sea. As the waters from ocean and land mix, the line between the two is visible as turbulent motions from distant places finally join.

The pieces from this collection originate from the sound of this event, reflecting a unique place and time.

MIA COLLECTION

WITH MIA BENITA

SoundMade Ceramic from the Mia collection

SoundMade Ceramic from the Mia collection, with Mia Benita

The process with Mia Benita begins with a voice recording, usually a cappella. The audio is analysed to extract frequency and amplitude data. This data is translated into digital curves and surfaces using custom algorithms. The resulting form is refined, then prepared for ceramic production. Each piece corresponds directly to a specific recording.

Sometimes

MIA BENITA

"SOMETIMES"

Peniche is shaped from limestone and exposure. Karst rock cut by water, cracked by salt, hollowed slowly from the inside.

The landscape feels porous, unstable, always in the process of becoming something else. Cavities, channels, sudden voids. What you see is not surface, but time made visible through erosion.