The POEMI Capsule at the Bucharest Design Festival

Ceramic Totems POEMI in China

In May, POEMI was present at the Bucharest Design Festival with a dedicated installation: the POEMI Capsule, part of the Romanian Design Brands section. The highlight of our participation was the PAMANT MANA FOC dinner, an event specially designed for the POEMI community, where handmade objects stepped out of their usual home setting and took center stage during an evening dedicated to Romanian design.

A capsule, a dinner, a community

The POEMI Capsule was conceived as a meeting place for people and objects: handcrafted ceramic pieces, taken out of their usual context at the dinner table at home and displayed in a new setting, alongside other Romanian design brands present at the festival. At the PAMANT MANA FOC dinner, POEMI’s ceramic totems visually defined the evening’s atmosphere, highlighting the texture, weight, and slight imperfections characteristic of handmade pieces—precisely the elements we value most in everything we do.

Earth, hand and fire, three words that describe, moreover, exactly the path of each object POEMIextracted and shaped clay, the potter's hand giving it form and the kiln's fire transforming it permanently. Bucharest Design Festival gave us the opportunity to tell this story differently than we usually do: not in the workshop, but on a lively evening, entirely dedicated to our community.

Admission to Capsula and the dinner was by invitation only (the 50 invitations reserved for the POEMI community were picked up from the store before the event), and those in attendance were able to get an up-close look at the pieces on display, in a setting designed specifically for this evening.

Thank you

We would like to thank everyone in the POEMI community who joined us at Capsula and at the PAMANT MANA FOC dinner, as well as the organizers of the Bucharest Design Festival for hosting us. The joy of seeing our pieces in a new context—on your tables—is why we continue to handcraft our ceramics with patience in our studio in Sibiu.

Event held as part of Bucharest Design Festival 2026.