TYBO art & craft
TYBO is a Copenhagen-based creative brand and shop, creating hand-thrown stoneware alongside art, design and collaborations across disciplines.
Founded in 2015, TYBO has grown from a small family project into a creative universe rooted in craftsmanship, simplicity and curiosity. From our boutique and workshop in Vesterbro, we create objects made to be used, lived with and kept for years.
At the heart of TYBO is a love of materials, good craftsmanship, and the hands behind the things we surround ourselves with.
A Creative Inheritance
Behind TYBO is a family in which making has always been part of everyday life. Founder and designer Stinne Bo Tyrrestrup grew up surrounded by creativity. Her grandmother ran her own pottery workshop and shop and also painted and drew. Her father, Hans Bo, has worked as a potter for more than 40 years, while her mother and grandparents found their own creative expression through painting and drawing.
For Stinne, making came naturally. She has drawn and created for as long as she can remember. Creativity became a playful way of understanding and taking in the world, something she could spend hours absorbed in.
Today, that creative inheritance lives on in TYBO. Not by repeating what came before, but by allowing it to take a new form.
"There is a certain humility in carrying something like this forward. My grandmother and my father are potters. I am a designer. It is important to me that TYBO continues in the spirit of the family and with a deep respect for the craft, but I also have to do it in my own way."
Growing into TYBO
When TYBO began in 2015, there was no grand plan. It grew from ideas, play and experimentation, gradually taking shape as Stinne and Hans explored what they could create together.
Over time, TYBO developed its own expression: simple, functional objects rooted in Nordic stoneware traditions and made with an attention to proportion, material and touch.
A TYBO piece should not only look beautiful. It should feel right in the hand and become a natural part of everyday life. The colours are quiet and familiar, the surfaces soft, sometimes reminiscent of a stone washed smooth by the sea.
Today, Stinne shapes the designs, aesthetic and creative direction of TYBO. The ambition remains simple: to create things worth using and keeping.
When TYBO began in 2015, there was no grand plan. It grew from ideas, play and experimentation, taking shape gradually as Stinne and Hans explored what they could create together.
As more people discovered their work, the identity of TYBO became clearer. Stinne developed a simple and understated aesthetic rooted in Nordic stoneware traditions, with a focus on quality, function and the way an object feels in everyday use.
The ambition was never to create objects simply to look at. TYBO pieces are made to become part of daily life: to be used, collected, and kept for many years.
That same simplicity runs through the wider TYBO universe today, from the ceramics and visual identity to the Vesterbro shop itself. It is very much Stinne’s expression, though she and Hans have not always agreed on everything.
Hans designed the much-loved Hans Cup, but Stinne is happy to leave his Persian rugs, troll figurines and running glazes in his own shop in Djursland.
Beyond clay
Stinne’s own artistic practice extends beyond ceramics. While studying design at the Royal Danish Academy, she began working with paper, cutting and layering it to bring depth and dimension to her drawings. Over the years, this has developed into a distinct artistic practice alongside her work with TYBO.
Clay and paper may be very different materials, but the same curiosity runs through both: a fascination with making, repetition and refinement, and with discovering how far a material can be taken.
