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BZIPPY is a Los Angeles–based ceramic furniture and housewares studio founded in 2008 by artist Bari Ziperstein. Working at the intersection of art, design, and production, the studio creates hand-built ceramic objects influenced by architecture and industrial design. Ziperstein studied art and women’s studies as an undergraduate before earning her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004, where she studied with conceptual artist Michael Asher. Following graduate school, she focused on studio-based sculpture and experimental public art, developing an approach shaped by conceptual art and intersectional feminist principles. These foundations inform BZIPPY’s practice, which emphasizes material exploration, structure, and function. The studio produces open-edition furniture and housewares using slab construction and extruded forms, balancing craftsmanship with accessibility. BZIPPY’s work is widely carried by design retailers and specified by interior designers, reflecting its position between experimental practice and contemporary production.