Between your British wit and Capucine’s French style, it seems to be a perfect marriage, both from a business standpoint and, I’m sure, a personal one as well. Juliska’s collections seem to reflect that humor and style. Tell me about that.
“Yeah, we like to have some fun. We are a young company. We’re rather unencumbered by any seriousness that goes with running a tableware business, which typically is not the sexiest or funniest industry. Everybody is really empowered to nail their domain. It’s not an organization that’s based on Capucine and me. We really want it to be a corporate culture. That’s always a challenge obviously, because we’re always visible. But it’s creating something that’s not in our image or likeness. It’s something that will be great and strong in 100 years and it doesn’t exist on David and Capucine.
“We’ve just had our 10-year anniversary….It’s fast and exciting and it’s overwhelming. But the feeling you get from Juliska is something that’s really important to us. We’re not just designing plates. We want to design and create lifestyle, have fun and get into the spirit to entertain.”
Your artisan mouth-blown glass is a luminous medium.
How does the use of light affect Juliska glass?
“Light is critical to our glass. For instance, when you look at our pendant lights they are an amazing category, very successful sales. The way the light shines through the decoration glass is magical. We just renovated our home right here in Shippan Point for the last year. We just moved in a week ago. We put a lot of these pendants in and the different decoration that comes out on the outside of the pendants causes amazing light.
“In display, the way we endeavor to illuminate the glass makes the decoration magical. That is key. Now that relates to the way we design and select our ceramic glazes.
“When we went to our ceramic technologist in Portugal, we said we would like to echo the sensibility of our glassware in ceramics. How do you do that? So if you look at the majority of our glazes, they are effectively transparent. You can see the blend of clay with color as it pools over a design. And that stops it from being flat and opaque. But that comes from glass. If you look at our green glass particularly, the gradation of color is what gives it so much depth. This new collection, Country Estate, the depth of color and the variation of color is what gives a piece its three-dimensionality and its life.”
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