Our Studio
Lauren HB Studio creates sculpture and decor for modern environments, with a focus on timeless beauty and heirloom quality. Our pottery is designed to last many lifetimes, incorporating universal design principles. Our sculptural work, ranging from intimate installations to large-scale statement pieces, is designed to ground and enhance the space it inhabits. Driven by a passion to honor the beauty within every being and every corner of the world, we envision our objects bearing witness to events large and small – artwork designed for every single day of your life. In doing so, we aim to tread lighter on our planet, invest in craftsmanship, celebrate creativity, and demonstrate unwavering respect for our fellow humans and our environment.
About Lauren
Lauren Herzak-Bauman is the creative force behind Lauren HB Studio, where she specializes in sculpture and pottery. With over 25 years of experience, Lauren brings a beautiful and refined touch to her work, creating unique pieces for a diverse clientele. From interior designers and retailers to art consultants, Lauren's work graces private and commercial properties and retail stores both nationally and internationally. Nestled within a historic Lakewood, Ohio screw factory, Lauren and her team collaborate closely with clients near and far to bring their artistic visions to life.
Why We Make
There is no form without vision.
History
History
Lauren HB Studio began in 2013 in Lakewood, Ohio, founded by sculptor and educator Lauren Herzak-Bauman. What started as an experiment with slip-cast pottery soon became a thriving practice—driven by Lauren’s entrepreneurial spirit, intuitive design sense, and a fascination with how form can shape experience.
Balancing functional objects with fine art, Lauren grew the studio while continuing to pursue sculpture, culminating in a pivotal early commission: a large-scale installation for The Westin Hotel in downtown Cleveland. This project established the studio as a place where intimate, handmade processes could scale into impactful, architectural works.
From those beginnings, the studio has evolved from producing everyday objects into creating one-of-a-kind sculptures, installations, and commissions for residential, commercial, and public spaces. Today, Lauren HB Studio is known for work that moves between delicacy and strength, presence and subtlety—driven by concept, realized through craft, and experienced as resonance.
Rooted in Lakewood, Ohio, the studio continues to grow from its original vision: that art transforms how we feel in a space—whether experienced in quiet intimacy or at architectural scale.
Vision
Vision
Lauren HB Studio envisions a practice rooted in authenticity and agility, where concept and craft converge in a state of vibrant flow. Our one-of-a-kind artworks are created to transform how people feel in a space—whether residential, commercial, or public—becoming treasured pieces that endure over time.
Growth is guided by thoughtful commissions and inspired self-initiated projects, sustaining a studio that values ease, freedom, and the transformative connections art makes possible.
Values
Values
VIBRANCY
Creating with passion and energy that elevates object and space.
HARMONY
Designing with curiosity and joy, reflecting nature’s balance and beauty.
REVERENCE
Honoring process, material, collaborators, and clients with equal respect.
AMOR FATI (A Love of One’s Fate)
Embracing process and the unexpected, finding beauty in what unfolds.
INTUITIVE FREEDOM
Trusting intuition to guide creation and authentic interpretation.
Initiatives
Initiatives
SUSTAINABILITY
We care for our environment by reusing clay, shipping plastic-free as often as possible, and embracing daily practices that reduce our footprint.
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
We invest in ourselves and each other with events such as studio visits, movement practices, and shared experiences, in order to expand our skills and perspectives.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
We support our wider community by contributing to Our Lady of the Wayside, which serves individuals with disabilities in Northeast Ohio.
AI Ethics Statement
AI Ethics Statement
Lauren HB Studio is guided by values of autonomy, reverence, and beauty. We commit to using AI in ways that honor humanity and preserve the essential touch and tactility of our work. We will not engage with AI in ways that diminish the human connection between us.
How We Work
At Lauren HB Studio, every project begins with an idea shaped by space, material, and intent. We approach clay as both medium and collaborator—balancing control with surrender, precision with subtlety.
For sculpture and commissions, the process is intuitive and exploratory. Hundreds of handmade elements may be arranged into layered compositions, or a single form may evolve through direct manipulation. Surfaces are considered with equal care: burnished, textured, or glazed to reveal depth and tactility.
While clay, especially porcelain, remains central to the practice, we also work across materials as projects require—bringing in fabric, metal, or other elements to expand scale and presence. Alongside this work, the studio continues to offer a focused collection of vessels, each designed with the same attention to form, surface, and presence.
The throughline across all making is intention: concept refined through craft, resulting in works that transform how a space feels and how people move within it.
In Practice, the Work Reveals Itself.
PERSONAL PRACTICE
Making art is a practice. In the studio, I follow curiosity—researching, experimenting, and exploring how clay and other materials respond to touch, pressure, and fire. A surface, a fragment, or a form found in nature can spark a new direction. Through layering and repetition, the work slowly reveals itself. This studio practice allows me to move between scale, materials, and ideas that evolve over time.
SHARED GROUND
Whether born of personal practice or client collaboration, the process is rooted in reverence for material and trust in transformation. Research, exploration, and time leave their mark. What remains are works that witness, shift, and endure within a space.