SAUDARA Ceramic Atelier Blends Mexican Craft with Contemporary Tableware

Mexican ceramic atelier SAUDARA, founded by Ivana Sánchez and her mother María Padilla, creates tableware, vessels, and domestic objects that merge contemporary sensibility with forms rooted in Mexican craft and identity. The studio's collections feature restrained silhouettes and expressive glazes, with natural clay and subtle variations giving simple forms a distinct presence. Notable pieces include the Amapola salad bowl with serrano glaze, and the Archive collection, which explores how the same forms change through different surfaces, such as dirty taupe glaze and combinations of onyx glaze with red natural clay. SAUDARA also collaborates with floral studio Granada on a tea set and kenzan, blending ceramics with flower arranging. The studio's ceramist bowls, or los chawanes, focus on intimate, hand-scaled objects. The work proposes a quietly contemporary reading of Mexican ceramics, carrying craft, material, and identity forward without fixing them in time. The atelier is based in Mexico, and the project was submitted to designboom via its DIY submissions feature, edited by Iñaki Laguardia.