Muses of Mayfield
My favourite brand moment? Always when my customers send me photos of their gatherings with loved ones and my pieces. It’s everything I ever hoped for in starting the brand - connectivity, joy and facilitating happy memories with loved ones.
Clay By LB x The DEA Gallery
The Friends of DEA exhibition series features work by some of Sydney’s exceptional ceramicists, curated by Sibylla 'Billie' Robertson. Lilli Boisselet exhibited her ceramic pieces in iconic creative Sydney Gallery DEA. Come along for the journey.
Forever Love : Georgia Fowler and Nathan Dalah marry with Clay By LB custom ceramics
Georgia Fowler and Nathan Dalah decided to forgo a ‘first dance’ for a ‘first song’ at their wedding—a “much more fitting choice”, Georgia tells Vogue, considering she’s something of a karaoke enthusiast. “Getting Nathan to a dance class would never happen.” Though she describes their rendition of ‘Shallow’ as “fairly comical”—“seeing as neither of us are particularly great singers”—the model thinks about their duet as a promise rather than a performance. “A reminder,” she elaborates, “to never take life too seriously.”
Wild Clay in Nepal
I write this to you from the foothills of the Himalayas, six months pregnant and sipping lemongrass tea in the afternoon sun.
It’s the final days of a chilly mountain winter here, and the sun is shining through the early morning mists each day as we wait for the rain that breaks the cold weather each year and signals the start of the new season of warmth. We’re quietly watching each sunrise, each sunset over some of the highest mountains in the world, and I’m breathlessly hiking around in the clean air and altitude; napping and writing a lot.
It’s a delight, in every sense of the word.
Perhaps, a world away from the ceramic studio.
Celebrate the launch of RUSSH Home with Clay by LB and RUSSH
To celebrate the launch of RUSSH Home we're giving ten lucky RUSSH readers a Clay by LB Salacia Natural Shell Oyster Plate worth $112, plus a copy of Issue 01 of RUSSH Home. What are you waiting for? You've got to be in it to win it!
How To Be More Materialistic.
This week has seen a deluge of emails and ads in my periphery, advertising Black Friday sales and I’m so conflicted. Like all of us, I love a sale, but I equally resent the culture of over-consumption.
Before Covid, I spent many years travelling as a photojournalist to some of the most remote and financially poor communities in the world. I saw first hand the impact the ruthless supply-chain models of many manufacturers had on the people who create our products with their bare hands.
The Breakfast Club : The Ultimate Breakfast Cake
“The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event ... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us ... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilised conversation,” French writer Francine du Plessix Gray tells us.
Come behind the scenes with Lou
For the very first CLAY BY LB ISSUE, in the month universally dedicated to love, this collection is inspired by its ruthless aftermath - heartbreak.
To the thousands of ships launched in its bitter causatum, to the billions of songs written in its wake. To the moments of devastating aching that remind us what it is to feel, remind us to appreciate the joys that now seem so far away.
“Without pain, would we ever feel rapture? Without our own stories to project on them, would all the songs and art that moves us so even matter at all?” asked Jess Blanch.
Nothing But A Heartache
With Valentines Day just around the corner, ISSUE ONE celebrates its antithesis - heartbreak. We’ve all felt it, from artists to rockstars, and maybe we need its gut wrenching to appreciate and feel. Either way, it cuts deep.
Love Letters For Your Long Days
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.’ XVII, Pablo Neruda
‘One Night in Bangkok’ Chilli Oyster Recipe
Freshly shucked oysters straight from the sea are one of life’s great pleasures. But sometimes, we need to spice things up. Queue Lilli’s favourite Chilli Oyster Thai-Inspired recipe. Featuring Salacia Natural Shell Oyster Plate and the new kid on the block, ‘One Night In Bangkok’ Natural Shell Oyster Plate.
A Practice of Wabi Sabi.
“… In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with success--wealth, status, power, and luxury--and enjoy the unencumbered life… Wabi-sabi is exactly about the delicate balance between the pleasure we get from things and the pleasure we get from freedom of things.”
― Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
An Exploration of being Nude by creative Jenna Tyson.
I asked creative Jenna Tyson to write on what it is to be nude as part of my ongoing Intimacy Series. “Bound to secrecy and pretence, shame longs to keep us in the shadows. Yet, despite shame’s convincing and manipulative attempts to make us want to hide our humanness and strive for approval… Nothing covered. Nothing hidden. Fully seen.”
Featured Artist In The Inspired Co Magazine
Bjork said it best, “The more digital we have, the more naked skin and rawness we will want.” Inspired by Patti Smiths’ 1978 song ‘Because the night’, Boisselet’s first ceramics collection is a celebration of the objects that fuel our desire. Every piece is made by hand, because human touch is our most primitive craving. ‘Because The Night Belongs To Lovers’ is a homage to the objects that are there with us, and help us to cultivate the moments of togetherness, naked skin and rawness.
‘Shuck Me.’ By Lilli Boisselet
AS FEATURED IN RUSSH MAGAZINE “Oysters inhabited this earth long before us, they’ve been privy to all our histories unfold. Evolutions, Revolutions, Ages and Empires have risen and fallen around their unassuming shells. When Anthony Bourdain told us, ‘The history of the world is on your plate,’ no food captures this like the humble oyster.”
Come Behind The Scenes of our latest Collection Shoot
You make me feel like dancing. Come behind the scenes of our first collection shoot.
Because the Night Belongs to Lovers – Lilli Boisselet’s new photoseries is a homage to togetherness
Sydney-based photographer and member of The Inspired Co. Lilli Boisselet’s latest photo series ‘Because the Night Belongs to Lovers’ is an homage to togetherness. An antidote to our feelings of separation and distance in a post-COVID world. The series has been released as part of her ceramics collection and is a case-study in intimacy, connection and rawness. In the series, we see the ceramics offering both form and function, and telling a story of kinship.