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Brett Stern

Owner/Founder
Dazed and Glazed
Portland, Oregon, United States

Brett Stern, alchemist, owner, Dazed & Glazed, LLC.

My life/career has been equally divided between being an industrial designer, the profession of inventing/designing mass produced products, as a consultant/entrepreneur, and as a craftsperson working with traditional craft materials of clay, wood, and textiles. Both vocations focus on a hands-on appreciation of materials and processes that embrace sustainable solutions to design/make/manufacture objects with results to enhance the function, form and user/viewer experience.

My mother was a potter and I’ve been working with clay since a child. My ceramic work rotates between creating traditional pottery, designing production pieces, technical investigation of the materials, and allied processing. I love the texture, the smell and the bright red-hot flame from any style of kiln. For me, it’s a process of employing chemistry, mathematics, and magic…

My design beliefs are that objects have greater intrinsic value when they are handmade and they should always be brightly colored.

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