In her work as a designer, specializing in developing sustainable ceramics products, Lotte is aware of making conscious choices about every step in her making process.

Her designs are minimalistic, timeless and made of materials the earth provides. In this way, Lotte searches for the right balance between human needs and being respectful for mother earth. 

This results in a thorough ceramic research, conscious choices of the ingredients she uses and a constant development of her skills.

She is specialized in the use of (residual) minerals which she mostly collects locally in areas around her workshop, both in Eindhoven (NL) and her new home in Fågelsjö, Sweden.

She started her ceramic design studio in 2010 in Eindhoven directly after her graduation at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

Some highlights throughout the years:

• The Tap Water Carafe was her first product produced by herself in her ceramics studio in Eindhoven.
• A collaboration with Vij5 (an Eindhoven based design agency) was the start of scaling up the production of the Tap Water Carafe. Later on other ceramics collections of her were added to their collection.
• In 2018, she initiated the Oer project in Eindhoven. Within the Oer project Lotte de Raadt, Kirstie van Noort & Jetske Visser investigate various applications of local and natural (residual) materials for ceramic products.
• In 2019 she left the Netherlands to work for one year in Rwanda for Super Local and Mass design group in Kigali. Together with other talented designers she worked on the BUGESERA Collection, 75 furniture and fixture products for the Rwanda Institute of Conservation Agriculture. 
• A collaboration with Koninklijke Tichelaar for scaling up the production of Oer tiles happened in 2020. 10.000 Oer tiles were produced for a new pump building of Brabant Water in Eindhoven.
• This research continued in 2022 with an Artist in residence at Koninklijke Tichelaar in Makkum. Together with Kirstie van Noort we developed new possibilities for the residual iron sludge in tiles.
• In 2024 she and her family bought a summerhouse in Sweden. Working and living at the same place in a quiet forest village was something she dreamed of. In Fågelsjö they found their home and built up the ceramics workshop. 

Studio in Fågelsjö (SE)

The ceramic studio and shop is open for visitors during the summer. From July on she will host ceramic introduction courses, where participants can learn how to work with iron minerals in clay. 

For more information about the course click here

The small village of Fågelsjö is known for it’s decorated farmhouse Bortom Åa, part of Hälsingland World Heritage.