Dune

Overview

Type: Product Collaboration
Year: 2023

Dune borrows its whole attitude from ancient Greek pottery, then adds something entirely of its own moment: a single piece rendered in two finishes at once — matte set against high gloss — so the same ridge catches light two different ways depending on where it falls on that one form. That ridge is the throughline: it turns up again in the glassware and flatware, translated across materials and silhouettes.

Creative Process

Rather than a single piece, Dune was built around the whole tablescape, with enough range in material and finish to give a table real depth. Getting the two-tone, matte-and-gloss glaze to hold consistently across
a single form took close work with Serax's artisans, since the finish is doing
the job pattern usually does: it's the whole reason the ridge reads differently
depending on the light.

Creative Direction

Dune appeared in both shoots with Marie Wynants, right alongside Zuma. The first went for shock, with the now-infamous pickle pie. The second moved toward what the two of them now call a shared language:
playful, with room for surprise. What ties the two together is a shared belief that playfulness keeps design alive. Dune's pieces were treated as props for something a little absurd, made to be handled and used.

The ridge is the whole idea. Once I had that detail right, everything else — the glassware, the flatware, the serving pieces — just had to know how to speak the same language.

Kelly Wearstler