When a bathtub becomes sculpture
International design publication designboom features the new collaboration between Studio LOHO and Sharon Van Overmeiren — a series of monolithic clay bathtubs shaped entirely by hand. The article reads the work in a global design context, where the bathtub becomes a sculptural object as much as a functional one.
The collaboration marks the first chapter of LOHO Collabs, a platform for artists to work directly inside the studio's material universe. Sharon Van Overmeiren brings carved motifs, reliefs and surface interventions into the clay body. The silhouettes stay unmistakably LOHO; the surfaces open into a richer visual language. This is not ornament for its own sake — it is a way of deepening what ceramic design can hold: atmosphere, memory, function and imagination.
Each piece is built in the Bruges atelier from a single material, defined by mass, proportion and presence. The feature places Studio LOHO inside a broader international conversation around collectible design and ceramic bathtubs from Belgium.
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