Marbled by La Drome
Charlotte Brandt, the founder of Marbled by Ladrome, has a background in interior styling and visual merchandising, with a lifelong interest in colour, materials and decorative arts. After many years working with interiors in Denmark, she began exploring the traditional craft of marbling, developing a practice between her home in Denmark and her studio in the south of France. Inspired by French interiors, antique objects, old papers and the colours of the Drôme landscape, she creates hand marbled paper, silk and objects for the home.
The collection is presented throughout the website.
For enquiries about individual pieces, purchases or collaborations, please get in touch
The art of marbling
Marbling is an ancient decorative technique in which pigments are floated on a liquid surface and manipulated by hand before paper or fabric is carefully laid onto the water to capture the pattern.The technique has travelled across cultures and centuries, becoming particularly associated with bookbinding, stationery and decorative papers in Europe.
At Marbled by La Drome, traditional marbling techniques are used to create contemporary patterns and objects, while preserving the unpredictable character of the craft. Each sheet is unique, shaped by the movement of the water and the hand of the maker.
The Collection
The collection brings together hand marbled paper, silk and objects created for the home. Lampshades, boxes, notebooks, cards and individual sheets of marbled paper are made in small quantities, with each piece retaining the particular character of the pattern from which it was created.Some pieces are produced as small collections, while others are made as one of a kind objects.
Beyond the paper
The marbled papers are not made only to be looked at. They are materials to work with, transform and make into something new.
From Fordybet’s creative workshops, where participants learn to make handmade boxes and art journal or floral artist Signe Hom Berntsen’s beautiful sculptural flowers created from my calligraphy paper. I have linked to both those clever artists instagram, so you can see for yourself.
Collaboration
Two Danish crafts brought together.
Marbled by La Drome creates the marbled magic on the cardboard by hand, drawing each pattern onto the surface of the size before carefully transferring it to the board.
At Vestergaard Æsker, the marbled cardboard are transformed into handmade boxes through traditional cutting, folding and assembly.
The result is a meeting between two crafts, where every box carries the movement of the water and the hand of its maker.
Customers
My work finds its way into private homes, weddings, interiors and shops, where the pieces can be discovered alongside antiques, furniture and carefully selected objects.
For enquiries about the collection, collaborations or workshops, please get in touch.
A collaboration where hand marbled cardboard are transformed into beautiful handmade boxes.
Available through the Vestergaard website from mid November.
A collaboration where hand marbled cardboard are transformed into beautiful handmade boxes.
Available through the Vestergaard website from mid November.
