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Jono Pandolfi Showroom
Union City, NJ, United States
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Jono Pandolfi Showroom
Union City, NJ, United States
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Since founding his eponymous studio in 2004, Jono Pandolfi has become one of the most renowned creators of ceramic tableware for the hospitality industry. His commissions include Eleven Madison Park, Lilia, and “The Bear”, as well as several Rockwell Group-designed projects, including COQODAQ, The Boca Raton, and Electric Lemon. Demand for Jono Pandolfi ceramics has increased in recent years, leading to a need for workspace specifically designed for staff collaboration, as well as a hospitality-oriented client showroom for chefs and restaurant professionals.
Rockwell Group drew upon its years of friendship and collaboration with Jono Pandolfi to design a showroom and workplace concept for his studio. Inspired by Jono’s unique process of making and the existing studio space, Rockwell Group has created an elevated, inviting showroom that takes cues from the hospitality world. Respecting the existing character of the industrial loft was key to the success of Rockwell Group’s design. A calm and neutral material palette emphasizes the beauty of the space’s existing elements like concrete columns and high ceilings, while allowing for the colors of their ceramics to become the focal point. Each element responds to the abundant natural light shining through generous perimeter windows, creating a healthy and vibrant workspace for staff, artisans, and clients alike. The overall composition creates a harmonious balance between the hands-on ceramic studio and the showroom’s focus on client collaboration.
Designed with client collaboration at top of mind, the new showroom space is an elevated experience harnessing the beauty of the design process. All elements of the space can be curated for an individualized experience. Depending on the day’s client, visiting chef, or collaborator, shelves can be stocked with relevant samples, varying table shapes and sizes can be presented, and archives are easily accessible for reference. Flexible in plan, the expanded footprint is separate from studio production while remaining visually and spiritually connected to the core of the creative business.
Visitors first encounter a welcome area, defined by a custom square table with niches that can display a range of ceramic glazes, brochures, and samples unique to each guest. Two lounge areas complete with organically curved sofas, chaises, and tables double as a photo studio when new ceramic collections need to be photographed or staged. Display cases such as shelves, cabinets, and tables also work as storage for the growing company, allowing for the creative storage of pieces for easy access throughout the day, or the course of a meeting. Even under-counter cabinets made of white-washed plywood, walnut, and a mosaic of glazed tiles, reference the studio: rolling out from underneath, each large cabinet is maneuvered with a powder-coated red handle resembling the industrial pushcarts used to move clay. This storage area also stows a range of tabletops for table setting tests: Different tables have different sizes and shapes so each chef can play with their chosen glazes and shapes, all easily accessible from the display shelves above.
All these details conceptually connect the new space with the old. Jono collaborated with several makers located in his building to realize Rockwell Group’s designs, including Djivan Schapira, who fabricated our presentation and conference tables for the showroom by making the ceramic tile tops that tie the design together. Every element—from tiles to tables to handles—was realized through a team effort of artisans based in the Yardley building where the studio is located, transforming our design into a showroom that feels uniquely situated and fully representative of Jono’s spirit and craft.
At the heart of the space is a stunning 10-by-20-foot ceramic tile wall divider between the lounge and the workspace, handmade by Jono Pandolfi using every glaze color that his studio offers for custom dinnerware. This is a sculptural element that highlights the materiality and craftsmanship central to Jono’s work. It becomes both functional and expressive, reinforcing the project’s narrative of process-driven design. Jono also contributed custom ceramic tabletop tiles, pendant lights made with our dinnerware, as well as kiln-handle-inspired shelf pulls, all of which bring our materials to life in new ways.
Finally, Rockwell Group paid special attention to Jono’s personal office, located at the rear of the space. As the most private of the showroom’s spaces, the office takes the elevated design language to the highest levels, with rich materials and fabrics. The desk and furniture were specifically selected to offer Jono the most optimized workspace for heads-down creative thought and output, while simultaneously meeting the needs for more intimate client discussion and meetings.
Rockwell Group drew upon its years of friendship and collaboration with Jono Pandolfi to design a showroom and workplace concept for his studio. Inspired by Jono’s unique process of making and the existing studio space, Rockwell Group has created an elevated, inviting showroom that takes cues from the hospitality world. Respecting the existing character of the industrial loft was key to the success of Rockwell Group’s design. A calm and neutral material palette emphasizes the beauty of the space’s existing elements like concrete columns and high ceilings, while allowing for the colors of their ceramics to become the focal point. Each element responds to the abundant natural light shining through generous perimeter windows, creating a healthy and vibrant workspace for staff, artisans, and clients alike. The overall composition creates a harmonious balance between the hands-on ceramic studio and the showroom’s focus on client collaboration.
Designed with client collaboration at top of mind, the new showroom space is an elevated experience harnessing the beauty of the design process. All elements of the space can be curated for an individualized experience. Depending on the day’s client, visiting chef, or collaborator, shelves can be stocked with relevant samples, varying table shapes and sizes can be presented, and archives are easily accessible for reference. Flexible in plan, the expanded footprint is separate from studio production while remaining visually and spiritually connected to the core of the creative business.
Visitors first encounter a welcome area, defined by a custom square table with niches that can display a range of ceramic glazes, brochures, and samples unique to each guest. Two lounge areas complete with organically curved sofas, chaises, and tables double as a photo studio when new ceramic collections need to be photographed or staged. Display cases such as shelves, cabinets, and tables also work as storage for the growing company, allowing for the creative storage of pieces for easy access throughout the day, or the course of a meeting. Even under-counter cabinets made of white-washed plywood, walnut, and a mosaic of glazed tiles, reference the studio: rolling out from underneath, each large cabinet is maneuvered with a powder-coated red handle resembling the industrial pushcarts used to move clay. This storage area also stows a range of tabletops for table setting tests: Different tables have different sizes and shapes so each chef can play with their chosen glazes and shapes, all easily accessible from the display shelves above.
All these details conceptually connect the new space with the old. Jono collaborated with several makers located in his building to realize Rockwell Group’s designs, including Djivan Schapira, who fabricated our presentation and conference tables for the showroom by making the ceramic tile tops that tie the design together. Every element—from tiles to tables to handles—was realized through a team effort of artisans based in the Yardley building where the studio is located, transforming our design into a showroom that feels uniquely situated and fully representative of Jono’s spirit and craft.
At the heart of the space is a stunning 10-by-20-foot ceramic tile wall divider between the lounge and the workspace, handmade by Jono Pandolfi using every glaze color that his studio offers for custom dinnerware. This is a sculptural element that highlights the materiality and craftsmanship central to Jono’s work. It becomes both functional and expressive, reinforcing the project’s narrative of process-driven design. Jono also contributed custom ceramic tabletop tiles, pendant lights made with our dinnerware, as well as kiln-handle-inspired shelf pulls, all of which bring our materials to life in new ways.
Finally, Rockwell Group paid special attention to Jono’s personal office, located at the rear of the space. As the most private of the showroom’s spaces, the office takes the elevated design language to the highest levels, with rich materials and fabrics. The desk and furniture were specifically selected to offer Jono the most optimized workspace for heads-down creative thought and output, while simultaneously meeting the needs for more intimate client discussion and meetings.
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