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Working
with the artist to custom design a piece can be an exciting and
rewarding experience. Jordana Rene's commissions have included mezuzzahs,
seder plates, challah plates, sushi plates, and other items. In
each case, she works with the client to identify the look and feel
desired, based on color and style preferences and design elements
within the client's home (or home of the recipient if the piece
is a gift).
Given
this information, Jordana conceptualizes a number of design, style
and glaze options which she offers and discusses with you (via phone
and/or email). From here, Jordana creates your special piece.
Jordana's
commissions can be found in homes from Bel Air to Hong Kong. If
you are interested in having Jordana custom design a piece for you
or a gift for someone special, click
here.
Following
are some examples of the artist's custom design work:
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The
Geller Family: Seder Plate
The
Geller's home and taste reflected a natural, earthy style,
with a lot of natural stone. Jordana designed their seder
plate to have a natural, stonelike feel using a dark clay
body. The rich glaze is met by an unglazed stonelike feel
on the edges of the piece. This earthy edge meeting the shiny
surface, along with the rectangular shape, was designed to
connote the crossing of the red sea, symbollic of the exodus
of Passover.
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The
Spivak Family: Custom Mezuzzahs for Home
The
Spivak family comissioned Jordana to create mezuzzahs for
their home in Hong Kong, and 3 years later for their summer
home in Toronto. Through email correspondence, Jordana gathered
information about the decor of each room, and developed concepts
for mezuzzah styles and glazes to compliment each room.
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The
Spivak's Toronto Home
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Entrance
to the Dining Room
The
mezuzahs for the dining room were designed to match
the dark wood of the lower portion of the walls and
the dining room table and compliment the textured
chinese red on the upper walls. The lighter hints
of glaze highlight the white marble floor.
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Interior
of the Main Floor
Sculpted
in porcelain, these mezuzzahs were designed as a family
to each work with light yellowish paint on the walls
and brass hardware, and also compliment a specific
room.
Designed to highlight the black marble floor of
the hallway, the mezuzzah on the far left is
glazed to produce wonderful shades of brown and black,
with touches of metallic specs, and was designed to
highlight the black marble floor. The kitchen
mezuzah is glazed with a translucent green glaze to
compliment the lime green color walls and black marble
floor of the kitchen. The mezuzahs for the family
room and office are desigend to compliment the
oak paneled walls oak floors, and brass trims. The
glazing technique and reduction firing process provides
a fluid design with various shades of the glaze color.
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Upstairs
bedrooms
The mezuzahs for the upstairs are made of a low-fire
white clay body to match the white satin finish of
the door trim. Each is painted with a corresponding
underglaze paint to match the walls of each room.
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Exterior
of Home
The two mezuzahs for the home exterior are sculpted
out of a gray cone 10 clay body called "granite" designed
to match the gray brick. They have been high fired
in an oxidation firing without glaze to produce the
stone like feel.
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The
Spivak's Hong Kong Home
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Kitchen
Mezuzzahs
Raku
was selected as the firing method for these mezuzzahs
to create colorful metallic sheens, complimenting
the stainless steel applicances in the kitchen area.
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Bedrooms
The
master bedroom, boys and girl's rooms were all created
with an opalescent lustre finish with silver highlights.
The boys mezuzzah has a hint of light blue and the
girls pink.
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