Cracked eggshells spring to mind (in a good way!) upon seeing these pieces. They’re part of a collaborative project between designer Kelsie Rudolph and artist Chase Travaille — aptly named Chelsie’s — which marries her furniture designs with his porcelain shards. Lamp bases and tables are covered in the irregular fragments that create patterns and mis-shape their typical  forms. The lights are paired with similarly pieced-together shades, with embossed ridges along the joins to highlight their assembled nature.

“What distinguishes all of Rudolph’s work is its mindfulness to the actual human body that will interact with it and, as we found out while talking, the way it embodies her attentiveness to mind.”

“For thousands of years people have made ceramic furniture, from simple stools to elaborate temple thrones. After hundreds and hundreds of years of evolution, we’ve taken a dip into a trend of blobby, garishly colored ugly clay furniture. “

"Kelsie Rudolph searches for commonalities across cultural and social systems exemplified by the way that people relate to objects in various architectural spaces.”

"Ceramic artist Kelsie Rudolph glazes her adventurous creations in color combinations that just about make her skin crawl. She does this to better grasp color’s effect on us.”

"Montana-based artists Herzog, Rudolph, and Vaughankraska have transformed the main entry gallery of Tinworks Art into a seemingly distant and private space."

View works exhibited at the Brackett Creek Exhibition in Excuse Me, Thank You, Pardon Me, I'm Trying to Dance (Part 2).

Kelsie Rudolph received a grant from the Northern Clay Center to return to Korea after being offered an internship with sculptor Hun Chung Lee.