Interview
Ceramics from Jeanette Åkerberg that gives the little extra sparkle to your dinner
Represented by WAY Gallery and exhibited with her creations at Blå hallen and Women in Art. Jeanette Åkerberg is the Stockholm-based artist and ceramicist who, with her creativity, creates napkin rings that, through a simple way makes even an everyday dinner feel extra lovely.


Hi Jeanette! Your items just arrived in our stores and they are so beautiful! Please tell us a little about yourself and how you ended up on this track as a creator.
– I found the ceramics during a year in Dalarna when me and my boyfriend moved up there. I fell head over heels in love with clay, something I had heard and maybe even thought was a bit cliche before about the meditative and magical in creating turned out to be true.
At the end of 2021, I started an Instagram for my ceramics where I started to sell my creations, mainly my lady sculptures. After we moved to Stockholm, we built our own studio in our home where I now create all my ceramics. The napkin rings were added at the beginning of 2022 when I wanted to create something alongside my sculptures. I myself looked for nice napkin rings to buy, but never found the right ones. So it started with me creating my own!
I am a person who loves color and slightly unconventional shapes and want my creations to be a fun twist on the table settings. Something that makes the feeling lift. The napkin rings that I create were appreciated by many early on, but it was when Sofia Wood ordered and posted pictures that more people found me as a creator.
What would you say is your biggest source of inspiration in your work?
– I’m very attentive to details and ideas are created as if in a flow after that. I’m extremely interested in fashion, interior design, art and have countless coffee table books at home. I’m also fascinated by the people behind the art, those who create and their own lives. I probably have a very romantic way of looking at life and being, appreciate both big and small things that inspire or awaken something within me.



What is the most important detail you want people to see in your design?
– I wish that what I create brings joy. When the napkin rings are being used or someone who has ladies at home feels something. That what I create can be something that enhances everyday life and gives that little extra feeling. The napkin rings can be a simple way to make even an everyday dinner feel a little extra lovely.
What past experience from your life have shaped your current design?
– I think that all parts of one’s being are mixed together to form the whole, which somehow becomes the present. I am a very empathetic and emotional person, so any story or experience that I take part in gets stuck inside me. Especially with my sculptures I want to show the beauty of being different, and the napkin rings are also not cast in a mold but created by hand each one individually, with all the little quirks that comes with it.
Tell us about the products we received, how did you develop these?
– The napkin rings were initially just a creative gamble, some things don’t fly while others become popular. And it’s incredibly important to try, without feeling that everything always has to be perfect or ready right away. But the napkin rings, which were initially a fun mini-project, became bigger than I could ever imagined! I myself love the round shape and playing with proportions when I create, it dosen’t have to be perfect, that there’s a freedom and joy in the uniqueness that is created. Each napkin ring has something very special about it. I put an enormous amount of love into my ceramics and hope that the feeling I have when I create will also show in the results.