DANIELA CĂȚOI - Romania
DANIELA CĂȚOI
Designer biography:
DANIELA CĂȚOI is a Romanian porcelain jewelry designer based in Bucharest. With a background in Graphics (BA 2010, MA 2013) from the Bucharest National University of Arts, she transitioned from teaching art to focusing on ceramics. Since 2013, she has taught ceramics at the National Palace of Children. A self-taught ceramicist, Daniela explores porcelain through nature-inspired works, emphasizing overlooked textures and forms. Her handmade pieces blend porcelain with pigments, lusters, and gold, rooted in personal experience or detailed photo research. She seeks to reveal the quiet beauty of raw nature through contemporary jewelry.
Collection concept: The Inner Garden
The unending journey unfolds before me. This profound and often demanding process, I believe, touches on one of the deepest truths of our existence. As we grow more attuned to our thoughts, emotions, desires, and fears, we inevitably encounter parts of ourselves that rarely align with the idealized version we carry within. The path to self-awareness can be overwhelming - acceptance does not come all at once, but rather drifts in gently, like a delicate breeze. We are left to choose which fragments of ourselves we embrace, and which we leave resting in the shadows, awaiting the right moment to emerge. This inner tension is reflected in a porcelain collection of sculptural flowers, each piece designed to be reassembled and reimagined according to one’s own instinct. States of neutrality, depth, clarity, and expansion are echoed in the ever-shifting color palette ‒ each shade a reflection of the nuanced complexity of this personal journey.
