19. Made to outlive us: Pottery duo Sven Ceramics on functional art, staying small, and finding joy in clay
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In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Sven and Mallie, the husband-and-wife duo behind Sven Ceramics, inside their pottery studio at Pier 70 in San Francisco’s Dogpatch. Together they trace a decade of building a ceramics business from a backyard setup into a distinctive body of functional art—beginning with the childhood clay dragon that pulled Sven toward the wheel, Mallie’s gradual path from photographing and supporting the work to becoming half of the production team, and the…
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