Mixing it up with pots and planters
Garden Wednesday has a great selection of funny flowerpots, vases, mugs and more
LOOKING for something to brighten up a room? Then head up to Chatuchak and check out Garden Wednesday and its stock of handcrafted ceramic flowerpots and more in funky shapes and pastel shades.
The new-wave brand is the brainchild of Orasa Panyatanaporn and Thanthad Adisathanakul, both graduates in fine arts from Srinakharinwirot University, who have turned their passion for pottery into a business.
Orasa was working as a display designer at The Emporium while Thanthad was busy designing furniture when they got together and decided to pool their ideas. That was in 2014 and they made their debut at the Cactus Fair, where the 150 hand-made flowerpots they had brought along sold out.
The pair enjoyed a similar success at the annual Baan Lae Suan fair and felt sufficiently encouraged in the selling power of their products to open a small shop in the Chatuchak Plant Market.
“We just wanted to create our own flowerpots and were delighted when other people liked them,” says Orasa. “We both like antiques, so we created the first ceramics with an industrial-vintage style using local clay that gives our pieces a lovely texture. We attended a workshop held as part of the International Innovative Craft Fair
and received orders from French buyers and that convinced us to quit our jobs,” Orasa says.
“For now, we’re happy living a slower life. We haven’t really given too much thought to how much we can make out of the business. We develop our designs from customer’s ideas.”
A small shop, Wednesday Garden offers a wide range of flowerpots, vases, bowls, coffee mugs, saucers and decor objects, all hand-painted with cartoon motifs. There’s plenty of different colours too, with the pieces coming in pink, blue, green, yellow and orange as well as more basic black, white and brown.
Made with compound clay, all ceramics are microwave- and oven-safe and fired at 1,200 degree Celsius to ensure durability.
“We use a semi-matte coating technique to create different textures. We mould and paint each piece individually so our products are all one-of-kind. Each piece has different details,” Orasa says. “My ‘monster’ designs are made to make people laugh. For example, my dog-like coffee mug comes with a handle that looks like a tail.
Among the best sellers are vases bearing a face, coffee mugs shaped like foxes and kitten, flowerpots that look like rabbits with a super-long nose, squinty owls and six-legged puppies. You can also plant shrubs in a bathtub look-alike or in a Godzilla-like pot with a bird’s beak.
MADE FOR PLANTING
>> Garden Wednesday is at Chutuchak Plant Market. It’s open Tuesday from 4 to 10pm and Wednesday from 10 to 6. Find out more details at (099) 286 7643 or GardenWednesday page on Facebook and Instagram.
