about

brand

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Studio Ceres is a brand dedicated to curating distinctive vintage and contemporary design furniture and decorations. It was founded in 2023 in The Hague by Shari de Boer and Julie Hartkamp. Today, Studio Ceres is run independently by Shari. The aim is to give recognition to overlooked pieces and their designers, to bring more attention to objects of which the inventors have been forgotten about, but also to bring more transparency into how objects are sourced.

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Apart from Studio Ceres, Shari is also a photographer, working both digitally and with analogue photography. This defines the way Studio Ceres looks at objects, interiors and their stories, as well as the way the collection is presented.

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sourcing, collecting,  transportation, repairing, research, presenting​

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The collection comes together by the never ending task of sourcing. I mostly collect my items in The Netherlands and Italy. Every three months I organise a longer trip to Italy where I meet my still growing network of dealers. I enjoy the most stuffy and chaotic warehouses full of vintage design furniture and art objects ranging from the late nineteenth-century through Art Deco and Mid-century modern, to the eclectic seventies and Postmodernism.

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Although I have a long wishlist of items that I would love to add to my collection, I always try to go without expectations or specific objectives in order to be open to anything new or unfamiliar. Back home, in order to get the collection up and running as fast as possible, I put myself to administration, cleaning, restorations, research, textual and visual presentation. It takes time and effort, but when everything comes together, the result is something else.

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Apart from sourcing for my own collection I also source on commission! Are you looking for specific design or items in a specific style, do not hesitate to set out a search.

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