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Pincho Disco
59 Cambridge Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia
In a world driven by fast consumption and disposable trends, we often overlook the value of the handmade and thoughtfully designed. D (E S) I (G) N E (D) is an immersive exhibition including an exclusive ticketed dinner event . This project, curated by HotHaus Glass Studio and hosted by Pincho Disco, invites us to pause and experience the harmonious connection between food, design, and craftsmanship.
D (E S) I (G) N E (D) is a collaborative event celebrating local talent and the artistry of design. It’s an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and engage with the materiality of each piece—the handcrafted tableware, intricately designed glassware, and artisan food and drink. Each object is created with intention, elevating the sensory experience of dining. The dining table, set by Melbourne’s finest ceramicists, glassblowers, and textile artists, becomes a canvas where every element serves both a functional and aesthetic purpose.
The atmosphere is enriched by floral installations from Tweed and Twigs and styled by Rebecca Vitartas, creating a space where food and design not only coexist but enhance each other. This carefully crafted environment encourages guests to reflect on the role of design in shaping our experiences.
In a time of excess and waste, this project highlights the importance of slow, intentional creation. It emphasizes the labor of love and care embedded in each handcrafted object, inviting guests to appreciate the beauty of design that is built to last. We hope to inspire a renewed respect for craftsmanship and challenge the culture of fleeting trends.
As designers, we believe that excellent design is timeless. It endures, not only in the objects we create but in the experiences they shape. This is the future we aim to design—a future where the value of craftsmanship, good food, and thoughtful design are appreciated together.
Good design. Good food. A good time.
Participants
HotHaus Glass Studio
HotHaus Glass Studio, founded by glass artists Amanda Dziedzic and Laurel Kohut and located in Heidelberg West, is a celebration of traditional glass blowing infused with a contemporary outlook. As a female-led studio, HotHaus embraces a diverse range of creative expressions, crafting everything in-haus, from homewares and drinkwares to artworks and lighting. Dedicated to preserving the art of glass blowing, HotHaus not only produces their own creations but also provides a collaborative space for fellow artists and designers within their working hot glass studio. Their portfolio includes work with well known collaborators such as Jardan, CocoFlip, Monash University, and the Melbourne Film Festival, showcasing their versatility and expertise. HotHaus products can be found in esteemed stockists like The NGV design store, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design and Canberra Glassworks. Upholding three core principles — Good Design, Good Glass, and Good Times — HotHaus Glass Studio reflects a commitment to excellence in their craft, offering a blend of quality design and enjoyment in every piece they create.
Tantri Mustika
Tantri Mustika is a Melbourne-based ceramic artist renowned for crafting a diverse yet distinctive array of highly detailed ceramics. Tantri’s ceramic works are most recognised by her colourful yet earthy toned palette applied using various applications of meticulously hand-stained and marbled clays mirroring the allure of natural stone. Tantri’s ceramic works are often inspired by the natural world and personal memories. These stories re-visited and translated through the use of intricate textures, motif exploration and repetition. Her artistic philosophy revolves around embracing the beauty found in imperfection, recognizing that it is often within the subtle quirks and irregularities, that true character and uniqueness emerge. Each piece bears the unique marks of the artist's hand, celebrating the inherent imperfections that make each piece one-of-a-kind.
Sophie Moran
Melbourne potter Sophie Moran has established a reputation for quality, contemporary tableware that quietly and gracefully inhabits the home. With a career in ceramics spanning over twenty-five years, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to each piece she crafts. Themes of simplicity, domesticity and connection arise in both the appearance and function of the wares Sophie creates. The forms to which she regularly returns, plates, bowls, cups and teapots, all perform fundamental tasks in daily rituals. Weaving work with art and art with life, accompanied by her love of music, community and home, Sophie continues to hand craft pots, celebrating life’s simple pleasures, from a communal studio space in Brunswick.
Arcadia Scott
Arcadia is the designer, maker and brains behind Arcadia Scott Ceramics. A full time potter working from her home studio in Woodend, Victoria. Every piece she creates is completely unique and she enjoy creating clean forms, curved edges and surface textures. Creating both hand built and wheel thrown pieces she aims to creates items that are functional, tactile and expressive. Her work can be found in a limited number of stockists, and also at the various design markets across Australia.
Studio Dokola
Studio Dokola is focused on transforming historical and provocative design elements into modern, functional glass objects. The studio embraces the cyclical nature of design, leveraging concepts like re-melting and revival to create unique, contemporary products. Embracing the dynamic meaning of the word DOKOLA as a concept for objects -Dokola (Doh – koh – la) can be simplified to mean ‘around & around’. Like the turning of glassblowing pipe, recycling glass, or the resurgence of a past trend today. Our company considers this nutshell definition when thinking about designing, process, cyclic values and trends.
Tweed Twigs
Tweed Twigs, helmed by Graham Ho is a multidisciplinary practice that explores architectural space-making through the medium of flowers. By creating an experience that elicits an emotional connection, the practice feeds off the experience as an architect to redefine space and scale through floral design. Through designing for the senses, Tweed Twigs is driven by their collective human experience – challenging the way we see flora through interaction, expectation and intention.
Alice Oehr
Alice’s distinct, colourful style incorporates a love of food, pattern, collage and drawing. She draws both for work and for fun, which has led her to teaching, speaking and writing on the subject. Since 2017, she has run regular Still Life Drawing sessions for Apple iPad Pro at Lamington Drive gallery. Like most professional doodlers, Alice loves to record the world as she moves through it, and uses her work to showcase her observations and interpretations of the details she encounters. She has exhibited extensively and authored and illustrated four of her own books.
Rebecca Vitartas
Rebecca Vitartas is a Melbourne based freelance stylist and creative consultant working across a range of mediums in fashion, interiors and product presentation. Graduating from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) with a Diploma of Visual Merchandising Rebecca has worked with some of Australia's top photographers, creative agencies, art directors and leading brands and contributed to national and international magazines and publications. Rebecca’s ability to create and deliver innovative and beautifully styled images for both editorial and commercial clients is a testament to her dedication, keen eye for detail and her ability to draw from her contacts and experience. She is sought out by a wide range of clients who appreciate her down to earth nature and creative approach to all aspects of styling.
Brad East
Bradley East is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and designer working predominantly in glass. He is currently an associate at JamFactory. East designs objects with simple, refined forms and considers the surface of things a perfect space for play. With an interest in our emotional connection to 'things', and the individual reason behind liking one object over another, leads to design that seeks to celebrate aesthetics and functionality on equal parts. "Form can exist without function and function can exist without form, but only those objects which carry both, can really bring us joy."