Mara Lookabaugh
Mara Lookabaugh is a licensed architect in New York State with a focus on residential projects in upstate New York and the surrounding regions. Her work examines sustainability through tradition, grounded in regional context and drawing on craft and time-tested vernacular as an alternative to increasingly digital and mechanized building methods. Her sculptural work aims to blur the line between utilitarian simplicity and playful biomorphism while embracing tactility and the visible trace of the hand.
Architect x Ceramicist
Safe & Sound
Designed by Mara Lookabaugh.
In life and in the home, safety is felt in what remains honest. In my second collection, pieces are carefully held just shy of refinement, resolved only to a certain degree. In its unpolished articulation, the Quatrefoil Sconce harkens back to a bygone era and, as though carved by candlelight, features a somewhat crude femininity, a rawness that feels intimate. Hand-sculpted in stoneware with a stitched silk and cotton shade, the piece frames domestic comfort as something tactile, crafted, humble, and warm, resisting sleekness and perfection in favor of the visible trace of hand.
Stoneware is kiln-fired with a clear, matte glaze for durability.
— Size: 6x6” backplate, 6” projection, 10’ height with shade
— Weight: 2 lbs
— Materials: Stoneware, Silk & Cotton Shade, Aluminum Lamp Parts