14 stores · curated ORBIS register
Porcelain and stoneware are made at DE CERAMICA, where Mădălina Teler contrasts matte and glazed surfaces in functional and decorative pieces. The Bucharest studio takes commissions and teaches hand building, alongside selling its finished ceramics. In Cluj-Napoca, Athena Ceramics makes glazed tableware and decorative stoneware, with pottery classes at its Strada Anton Pann workshop. AWE Ceramic Studio hand-throws mugs and bowls on Strada Traian, with ceramic earrings also made by founders Daria and Rebeca.
Bucharest
A Bucharest ceramics studio led by Madalina Teler, making functional and decorative porcelain and stoneware in a minimalist style that contrasts matte and glazed surfaces. It sells finished pieces, takes commissions and runs hand-building workshops.
Best for Handmade porcelain and stoneware
Cișmigiu, Bucharest
Dizainăr, a Bucharest showroom on Puțul cu Plopi street near Cișmigiu park, has sold more than 600 small-batch creations by Romanian designers since opening in December 2012, spanning furniture, lighting, kitchen items, watches, ceramics, toys and jewellery. The shop won the ELLE Decoration Romanian Design Award 2014 as the most active supporter of Romanian interior design and has shown at design fairs in Milan, Cologne and London.
Best for Romanian-designed furniture and homeware
Bucharest / Romania
In Bucharest, Porcelain Art sells porcelain jewellery.
Best for Porcelain jewellery
Strada Anton Pann
A ceramics studio on Strada Anton Pann making handcrafted glazed tableware and decorative pieces. The workshop sells its own stoneware and hosts pottery classes.
Best for Handcrafted glazed ceramics
Strada Traian
Founded by friends Daria and Rebeca on Strada Traian, this studio hand-throws stoneware mugs, plates, bowls, and vases alongside ceramic earrings. Pieces are sold through its own shop, and the studio also runs clay workshops.
Best for Hand-thrown stoneware mugs, bowls, and ceramic earrings from a Cluj-Napoca studio
Iași, Romania
Caferamica pairs a working café with a paint-your-own ceramics studio in Iași, letting visitors glaze pottery over coffee instead of running separate errands. Local outlet Iașul Nostru calls it a place to "create stories on ceramics."
Best for Paint-your-own ceramics studio in Iași
Caferamica occupies a specific niche in Iași: half working café, half paint-your-own ceramics studio, run as one space rather than two adjoining businesses. Visitors pick up bisque pottery and glaze it at the table, turning what elsewhere would be a separate craft-shop errand into something done over coffee. The business describes its own purpose as bringing people together "through art, creativity and relaxation" — a mission statement rather than a slogan, reflected in how the space is laid out for sitting and working rather than quick takeaway. Local lifestyle outlet Iașul Nostru picked up on exactly that pairing, describing Caferamica as a place to "create stories on ceramics," language that positions it as a neighborhood gathering spot rather than a souvenir stop for passing tourists. There's no public record here of a founding date or a founder's name, and the site doesn't offer one — what it does make clear is the format: painting and modeling alongside a full café menu, aimed at people who'll stay for an hour rather than five minutes. For an Iași visitor looking for something to do with their hands besides hold a cup, this is the address where that's the entire premise.
Romania
Operating from 12 Allee Jean Moulin in Saint-Dizier, France, the shop sells Romanian gastronomic products such as brioche, sausages, spreads, beer and spirits alongside traditional embroidered textiles, handcrafted ceramics and wood sculptures. It won the Laureat 2019-2020 award from Haute Marne Initiative and was covered by the Journal de la Haute Marne and La Voix de la Haute Marne.
Best for Romanian ceramics and gastronomy
Sibiu / Romania
Ceramica de Nocrich revived a century-lost Transylvanian Saxon pottery tradition at a scouting center near Sibiu, training young potters and selling their wheel-thrown work through an online shop. The workshop also runs pottery classes and events for visitors alongside its retail ceramics line.
Best for Ceramics & Pottery, Handmade Pottery, Pottery Classes
Brașov
A Brașov ceramics studio making hand-thrown and hand-built stoneware, including mugs, vases and teapots, each piece formed and glazed by hand. The work is sold directly through the studio's own site rather than through resellers.
Best for Hand-thrown stoneware mugs, vases, and teapots from a Brașov studio, sold direct
Timi Oara / Romania
Gruni is a studio-shop in Timișoara where hand-painted porcelain jewelry, mugs and decorative objects are designed and produced on site, from Magma-glaze earrings to custom-order brooches. The team sells both from their Gheorghe Lazăr street storefront and an online shop with EU and North American shipping.
Best for Ceramics & Pottery
Cluj-Napoca / Romania
In Cluj-Napoca, Porcelain Art sells porcelain jewellery.
Best for Porcelain jewellery
Opera House, Timișoara
Souvenir Station, in the Opera House building on Alba Iulia Street in Timișoara, opened in November 2024 as a project of the Timișoara Destination Management Organization. It stocks hundreds of handmade items — pottery, jewelry, t-shirts, postcards, books, games and scented candles — from Romanian and Timișoara artisans.
Best for Romanian handmade pottery and gifts
Diaconu Coresi Street, central Brașov
A shop in central Brașov that gathers Transylvanian handmade work, from ceramics and hand-painted wooden spoons and plates to jewellery and paintings by local artist Elena Aanicăi. It is run by two makers who grew up with regional crafts and also sells rose-based products grown on their family's own plantation.
Best for Transylvanian handmade crafts and gifts
Old Town / Online
The Locals Souvenir and Gift Shop is a Brașov house for hand-painted ceramics, artisanal jams, syrups, rose lemonade.
Best for Hand-painted ceramics, artisanal jams, syrups, rose lemonade
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