Eric Landon

Eric Landen at work in the Tortus Copenhagen studioleft

Eric Landon (born 1976) is a Danish-American ceramics artist and designer. He is a co-founder of the Tortus Copenhagen ceramics studio in Copenhagen.

Early life and education

Landon was born in 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has worked with ceramics since he was 16 but initially studied economy at Xavier University in Cincinnati before moving to Denmark in 1999 where he graduated from the Danish School of Design in 2008. 2007. [1]

Tortus Copenhagen

The studio at Kompagnistræde 23 in Copenhagen

Tortus Copenhagen was founded by Eric Landon, his brother Justin Landon and fellow ceramist and Royal College of Art -graduate Karin Blach Nielsen in 2012.[2] Landon is the potter while Blach Nielsen is responsible for glazings.[3] The studio is based in an 18th-century, truse-style building in a courtyard off Kompagnistræde (No. 23) in central Copenhagen.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Forelsket i ler". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Fluted Stoneware by TORTUS Copenhagen". OEN. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Slow Ceramics from Tortus Copenhagen". Remodelista. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Slow Weekender: My home is my castle part I". LigaStudio. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
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