About
Ceramics.
The first thing I knew I was passionate about.
When building and creating, everything else falls away.
A needed respite from a busy world.
It's still like that today.
The material is alive to your every touch.
Fundamental and yet infinitely complex.
Guided metamorphosis through touch and heat.
The intersection of vision, understanding, and focus.
Pursuing perfection, yet acknowledging it can never be achieved.
This isn't about making light fixtures.
We have just one life to live.
I want to spend mine creating meaning.
Creating art.
"In my sculptures I aim to capture a moment of beauty in the natural world, and bring it to life with handmade artistry that imbues it with meaning. To me that's a calling worth pursuing for a lifetime."
Story
It was a near impossible challenge to create the world's first set of porcelain light rings.
Two master mold makers told me it would be very difficult or impossible. It took 12 months and hundreds of failures, sometimes working as much as one-hundred hours in a week.
Process
It takes over two-hundred steps and three weeks to make a single porcelain ring.
The handmade process means each ring is unique - a one-of-a-kind work of art in and of itself.
The rings are made from a specially formulated porcelain that is among the brightest white in the world. Each ring is formed using a process that took me more than a year to develop, dried for several weeks, and then fired to over 2000° which transforms it to white stone.
The metal components are custom designed specifically for each sculpture and precision machined to a tolerance of 5-thousandth of an inch. Each part is hand-polished and given the patina of your choice using centuries old techniques.
Each ring is carefully inlaid with more than a thousand dimmable LED lights that are among the highest quality in the industry. Near perfect color accuracy ensures your space is clear, bright, and appears as it would in natural light. You may specify any color temperature you like.
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Contact
As both a fine-art sculptor and mechanical engineer, my team and I are prepared to take on your project and deliver with exacting precision.
Our studio is located in Boulder, Colorado.
contact@tedbradleystudio.com
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