Yasha Butler
When I was an interior designer, I would create minimalist Spaces. These Spaces are "nice", but they always look a bit dull. I wanted to create an environment that felt calm and inviting, but my space felt lifeless. I know I'm missing something -- I just can't say what it is. - Yasha Butler
Yasha Butler is the daughter of a Turkish mother and an American father. She spent her childhood in Istanbul and left in 1997 to attend college in the United States. In 2003, she returned to Istanbul to set up her own studio and transformed an Ottoman-era alcohol factory into a small hotel, Sumahan On The Water. In 2006, she moved to Philadelphia, where she began producing ceramics full-time, and in 2009 she moved to her current studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Yasha Butler makes art to help minimalists transform interior Spaces, into a calm, seductive and beautiful space, she have always liked simple, basic, low-key, capture the irregular, handmade, natural, imperfect beauty.
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