CRAFTED FROM SOUND

TRANSFORMING STORIES INTO CERAMIC ART

BY LISTENING, WE BEGIN TO SEE.

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

THIS IS WHERE OUR PROCESS BEGINS - 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

PENICHE

KARST FORMATIONS
FROM THE SOUND OF ATLANTIC SWELL

A GEOLOGIC PARADISE

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

ELEMENTS COLLECTION: PENICHE

39°21'11"N 9°23'16"W

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.

SÃO PAIO

BRUTAL BEAUTY

ELEMENTS COLLECTION: SAO PAIO

41°16'53"N 8°43'53"W

MIA

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 COLLECTION

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.

MIA: SOMETIMES

FOZ

WHERE THE DOURO MEETS THE SEA

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.