HOME is the first issue to launch in a series of three themed issues focusing on spaces integral to the contemporary crafts field: the home, the garden and the studio. Three often connected spaces that allow for a thorough investigation into the ways crafts and making permeate our daily lives. HOME is edited by Charlotte Jul and Ida Marie Nissen. Their vision of home is about creativity, intentionality and personality. Here, home is presented as a private world that can sustain creation and adapt alongside its inhabitants.

Ceramicist Elisa Helland-Hansen lives and works on the same plot of land in Rosendal, southeast of Bergen, Norway. Her home and workshop epitomise safety, openness, and creativity, offering an impressive view of the fjord. Here, she creates her distinctive functional ceramics, which have garnered fans worldwide. In this interview by co-editor Charlotte Jul, we meet Elisa Helland-Hansen at home.

In this article by Cecilie Tyri Holt we are invited to examine the relationship between the things we own, and the feeling of home. From old LP records to Gustav Vigeland’s candlesticks, Tyri Holt makes the case for emotional maximalism.