About
Before she was a ceramicist and painter, she was someone who couldn't look at a plain object.
Story
Dani Najman grew up surrounded by ordinary objects, spending her whole childhood imagining what would happen if each one had colour.
The answer came late, in a clay vase forgotten in the backyard. She started at the centre with a single dot, and didn't stop until the whole piece turned.
Since then, the work has always been the same gesture, repeated with patience: observe, choose, mark — straight from the brush, with no prior drawing, layer upon layer until the colour gains relief. Vases, planters, bottles, stools, tables and objects no one looked at twice become the centre of the room.
Timeline
- Childhood
Colour before words
Pencils, chalk and the walls of the house. Colour always arrived before any explanation.
- 2016
The first vase
A clay vase forgotten in the backyard receives its first dots. Nothing is the same again.
- 2019
The studio
A space just for painting, with morning light and shelves full of waiting objects.
- 2022
First collections
Orbit and Earth are born from the wish to organize what was already instinct.
- 2024
Architecture
Pieces begin to be made to measure for homes, hotels and restaurants.
- Today
One-of-a-kind pieces
Every piece keeps being born from the meeting of the object's shape and the rhythm of the moment.
Inspirations
Mandalas, tilework, Brazilian street festivals, the pattern of water and the patient repetition of embroidery.
Studio
A space in São Paulo with morning light, shelves of objects waiting their turn, and dozens of hand-mixed pots of paint.
Mission
To prove that joy can be sophisticated — and that any object can become a home's most cherished memory.