900 Mini Miesopots for Buro Miso
A project together with Arne HendriksIn the beginning of 2023 I got the assigment from Arne Hendriks to design & produce as many mini miesopots as possible (for the Dutch Design Week that October). At that time, I didn’t have a ceramic studio & experience in large scale production, but with a lot of help of a team (existing of friens and family) I managed to produce 900 mini miesopots on time! All pots are unique and have fitting lid. Arne Hendriks gives away these pots to people he has interesting conversations with during lectures, presentations, exhibitions or meetings. You want to be part of Buro Miso? Join one of the events with Arne Hendriks and you might just earn one of the 900.
What are Miesopots? This project is all about traditional Dutch miso. Or ‘mieso’ as the dutch ancesters would have written it. It is a (thought) experiment around a new history. In this new (counterfactual) history, miso is already well known and embraced in the Netherlands for well over 400 years. And it plays an important role in traditional Dutch recipes.
With as result: an ancient design for a traditional dutch mieso pot and homemade miso from Faba beans (grown at a farm called Veldzicht in Zeeland, NL).
Want to know more? I give a longer explanation (inclusief Nederlandse video) on another page on this webiste. Click here!
>> How to make 900 mini miesopots: I am so proud that my team and I managed to produce soo many unique pots, that I want to show off our hard work. So, here are the 10 steps we took to make the miesopots:
1. Make models
2. Make molds of the models
3. A LOT of slipcasting!
4. Stamping & cleaning
5. Applying a layer of white slip
6. Triming & finals stamps
7. Drying & bisque baking
8. Painting and dipping with glaze
9. Final firing!
