Tacit with Cj O’Neill
Celebrating London Design Festival with a Special Collaboration
EMMA LACEY / COLLECTIONSWe are excited to announce a unique collaboration with ceramic artist Cj O'Neill, coinciding with the London Design Festival. Cj’s practice centers on people and objects, storytelling, and complexity. She explores themes of authorship, value, and collaboration by using everyday ceramic objects combined with narrative, merging handcraft and industrial processes. Her work reveals how ceramics can connect people, allowing them to construct their own stories.
This collaboration introduces a limited edition of our Tacit Mugs, which highlights the intersection of handmade and industrial techniques. The collection emphasizes the significance of the dent—where handcrafted elements inform and enhance industrial design—resulting in truly unique pieces for this one-off release. This new version of the Tacit Mug accentuates the form with a bright circle of color in either orange or gold, each applied by hand, making every piece unique.
THE TACIT MUG HAS BEEN DESIGNED WITH REFERENCE TO EMMA’S HAND-THROWN EVERYDAY TABLEWARE RANGE.
The dent and the angled handle offer a similar tactility whilst paying homage to the aesthetic and functional qualities of industrial porcelain. They are slip-cast by hand before being fired to an astounding 1400 degrees. This means that the glaze fuses perfectly with the clay body and an extremely durable and silky smooth finish is achieved.
It’s super satisfying running your fingers or thumb over the tactile dented form. We use ours every day!
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Everyday Mug
Tacit Porcelain Mug
OUR PROCESS
Developing an industrial version of the Everyday mug has been a personal ambition of Emma’s. The idea of using the design features apparent in her hand-thrown work, whilst making a more accessibly priced, ‘Everyday’ piece piece was appealing and challenging.
The brief was not to immitate the everyday mug but to nod to it’s form whilst designing specifically for factory production. It took a lot of time and research to find the right manufacturers and we were delighted to work closely with such experienced and knowledgeable people to get the piece just right.
When designing and modelling the shape, Emma has worked to combine technology with the hand, scanning elements of her thrown vessels and then modelling in CAD to develop a contemporary piece which celebrates the idiosyncrasies of ceramic materials and the handmade, as well as providing a sensual tactile experience when the object is used.
