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Handmade mug with a dripping green glaze on stone in late sun

Not everythinghas to resemblethe versionbefore it.

A studio for makingobjects that are not meantto be repeated exactly.

Why doesRAD exist?

It began with the thoughtthat the things we lovedo not always have to bepredetermined, exact, and repeatable.Sometimes we see a photographand want a version of our own;sometimes only a formor a detail staysin mind.

Hands shaping a bowl on the pottery wheel

From an ideato a real work.

Behind RAD,I’m Mahdiyeh.

RAD started from making thingsI wanted to exist;things I may have seenan image of somewhere,or whose form had simplystayed in my mind.

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What remainsafter somethingpasses.

Every work is the trace of an idea,a hand and a material. What remainsof that passage isthe same form, the same texture,the same 1/1 result!a real object, with allits incompleteness, and thatincompleteness is part ofits identity.

Hands kneading clay on a workbench

RADis not…

  • mass production
  • controlling everythingto the last millimetre
  • a starting point
  • a human hand
  • a material that sometimeshas its own opinion.
  • a 1/1 result
Handmade bowl with dripping glaze on stone

Nowfinda RAD.

Browse the available worksand see which RADstays with you.

The RAD stamp in clay
See the works

Make yourown RAD.

Begin with a photo, a form, an idea.Or even a feeling.We’ll make your versiontogether.

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Handmade two-handled cup with a green sprig in natural light

Each work,only once.

The RAD that remainsis your story.

At RAD, every work is the result ofa unique path:from idea to clay, from hand to firing,and from the studio to your home.