Casa Adams Fine Wares: Marbling Collection

Brand & Lifestyle Photography

Transforming a love of marbled endpapers into a high-end range of ceramic tableware

Ceramicist Araceli Adams and husband Dominic have taken a love of marbled endpapers in old natural history books published in the 18th and 19th centuries, and have mastered their own process for applying this same aesthetic to stoneware.

To launch a range of truly handmade marbled tableware, Casa Adams Fine Wares commissioned me to capture their studio process from start to finish at their beautiful custom-built Dulwich Hill, Sydney, location.

Half-day shoot / May 2026

Shelves in ceramic studio
Portrait of Dominic and Araceli Adams of Casa Adams Fine Wares
Bright ceramic glazes lines up in jars with paint brushes sticking out of them, ready for painting
Marbled bookend from an old leather bound book held by an artist's hands
Ceramicist Araceli Adams at work in her studio wearing a lab coat while marbling
Marbled stoneware plate revealed from the size
Ceramic studio
Close up of marbled stoneware plates
Mixing ceramic glazes in jam jars
Inside the studio of Araceli Adams, with marbled plates drying by the sink area
Ceramic bisque-ware and marbled pieces on a wooden bench
Marbling ceramic glazes
Close up of marbling process in the size
Marbled plate and marbled reference from a book
Glazing stoneware plates in a ceramic studio
Vignette inside a ceramic studio showing glaze pots, brushes and tools
Casa Adams Fine Wares tablescape by Araceli Adams, Sydney
Close up of marbled plate by Araceli Adams
Dominic and Araceli stand at the door of their ceramic studio with their greyhound in Sydney on a sunny day
Setting the table with handpainted platters and marbled tableware
Marbled shell dish by Casa Adams Fine Wares on a table setting