Behind The Brand
Inspired by the intricacies and inconsistencies of nature, Marloe Marloe is a luxury ceramic and design studio creating timeless works that transcend trends and journey with their owners throughout a lifetime. Marloe Marloe seeks to connect people and space through objects with intention.
Marloe Marloe was founded in 2014 by ceramist Marloe Morgan, born from a passion for considered, artisanal design and a deep appreciation for the craft of ceramics. Working closely with talented makers in Indonesia, the brand has grown into a carefully curated collection of elevated homewares designed for those who appreciate beauty in the everyday. Each piece is thoughtfully created for the home, contemporary restaurateurs and hoteliers who seek to bring a sense of warmth, texture and intention to their spaces. At the heart of Marloe Marloe is a commitment to making better choices — for the people who make the work, and for the world it exists in. The brand continues to be guided by a belief that how we choose to make things matters just as much as the things themselves, striving always to leave both the physical and social landscape better than it was found.
Our Brand Pillars
Our Intention
At Marloe Marloe, our desire is to support a deep connection of people to their environment through objects and rituals rooted in intention and resolve. Inspired by the intricacies and inconsistencies of nature our luxury ceramic and design studio creates timeless works that transcend trend and journey with their owners throughout a lifetime.
As a business we promise to maintain transparency in our journey, highlighting our progress and continuing to improve each and every season. Our ongoing intention will drive our commitment to a better world.
Packaging
As our works are fragile and do require carefully considered packaging. Our inhouse team created custom double wall cardboard boxes to individually house our each Marloe Marloe form. These custom boxes and our complete suite of packaging materials have been designed with environmental impact at the forefront of the design process. We have carefully selected only biodegradable packing to support our form while being shipped. These materials include paper honeycomb wrap instead of plastic bubble wrap, biodegradable void-fill produced from rice starch instead of styrofoam stuffing, biodegradable cardboard boxes and paper fragile tape. We do currently use plastic tape to secure the boxes and we are working to remove this pollutant from our package in the coming months.
Community and our Production House
Materials and Design
With sustainability at the core of our manufacturing process we are committed to slow batch production practices and have done so from the beginning of our journey into ceramics. We choose to adhere to a made to order business model that ensures we account for each and every form that Marloe Marloe produces and we do not take this responsibility lightly.
Our approach to making is carefully considered and reevaluated consistently to ensure all phases of our process from design through to production are low impact and environmentally viable. Our team pride themselves on considered collections sizes, the use of biodegradable packing and minimising our carbon footprint throughout our supply chain while capturing the essence and beauty of slow manufacturing.
Manufacturing
All Marloe Marloe works are made by skilled artisans on the island of Bali, Indonesia using a Stoneware Clay Body that is formulated from the raw materials of Silica, Ball Clay, Kaolin, Feldspar or Nepheline Syenite.
Our shapes are formed either on the pottery wheel by master craftsmen or slip-cast using plaster moulds that allow for the replication of the same shape over time. The works are trimmed and refined by hand before being bisque fired. Our work is then glazed by hand and fired to vitrification at 1280°C in either gas or electric kilns depending on the production house.
The use of water is kept to a minimum within the making process of our MARLOE MARLOE ceramics. Our wastewater is appropriately managed and treated onsite by our Production House/s who do not dispose of the water into oceans, rivers or streams. Waste water is separated between clay waste and glaze waste and managed appropriately. As a business we review this with our Production House on a regular basis.
Community
Here at Marloe Marloe we are so proud of the long-standing partnerships with our makers and production houses, we consider these relationships the heart and soul of our business. These relationships have been carefully fostered for more than 8 years and we are fiercely committed to the communities we support . As a family, we are passionate about the growth and development of these partnerships and we are excited by the future challenges and opportunities to make environmental change.
Ongoing Intention
We are also invested in the continual improvement of the livelihoods of the communities we serve. We are working on supporting and helping to address the plastics issue in Indonesia as this is where the majority of our work is crafted.
And finally, another of our overarching focuses is the continued attention toward sustainable practices on a whole within the Marloe Marloe business. The homewares industry is not yet regulated in the same way that the fashion industry is. So the changes we are making are not yet accredited but our hope over the next 3-5 years to see our industry adopt some of the same accreditations and industry standards as the clothing industry. We hope to be at the forefront of this adoption.