Olive Pit Bowl
$34.00
Stoneware & Stamping
Zoé Mavridís
Sifnos, Greece
Working since
2010
With Terra & Sol
Feb 2025
Zoé returned to her grandmother's house on Sifnos in 2014 and converted the lower floor into a stoneware studio. She carves the wooden stamps herself, drawing from the geometric vocabulary of Cycladic pottery and the iconography of the island's blue-domed chapels. Each mug is wheel-thrown, stamped at the leather- hard stage, and fired in a small electric kiln. The clay is locally-sourced grey stoneware from a quarry on the mainland Peloponnese.
The Studio
Mavridís Stoneware
A stone-walled studio on the lower floor of a family house in Apollonia, Sifnos, opened in 2014.
Est. 2014
Apollonia 84003, Sifnos
Studio hours
Visit the atelier.
- Mon09:00 – 18:00
- Tue13:00 – 18:00
- Wed09:00 – 18:00
- Thu13:00 – 18:00
- FriToday09:00 – 18:00
- SatBy appointment for visiting collectors
- SunBy appointment for visiting collectors
The Process
How the work is made.
In their words
Q & A.
Why stamps?
I love the certainty of them — the carved wood doesn't lie. The same stamp leaves the same impression every time, but the clay around it always behaves differently. The mug carries both.
Where do the patterns come from?
Old Cycladic pottery from the museum on Naxos, mostly. And the windows on the chapels here — the iron grilles have geometries I redraw constantly.
What's the hardest part of making a mug?
The handle. I throw the body and trim the foot quickly, but a handle that sits well in a hand and looks right on the body — that takes years of practice and I still pull a few that I have to scrap.
Gallery
From the atelier.
Pieces by Zoé