"Magdalena Kaluzna was still producing porcelain in her Copenhagen kitchen when she got a call from an up-and-coming Danish chef named Kristian Baumann. He wanted her to make tableware for his new restaurant 108 — a spinoff of Noma. The 24-year-old Pole couldn’t believe her luck. Eighteen months earlier she had moved to Denmark with her boyfriend and business partner, Michal Wlodarek, after he was offered a position in Copenhagen as a chef. A fine-arts graduate, Kaluzna decided to pursue a career in pottery. In Denmark, she says, “everyone appreciates ceramics and good design.”

She soon found a studio on a cobblestoned street in Copenhagen’s trendy Norrebro district, and began working on Baumann’s initial order of 1,500 plates. “I had never seen that many plates,” she laughs. As 108 grew in popularity, Kaluzna’s own star rose. Today she produces elegant, playful porcelain for several top-tier clients in Copenhagen including Relae, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and the trendy Coffee Collective chain. And she continues to develop her designs with tips and feedback from baristas and chefs: “They tell me so many things I never think about,” she says."

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