A Zeeland team with a passion for ceramics

CARVE is the story of two people who met in natural stone, and took the step to ceramics together.

Leonard Dominicus grew up in Zeeland and has a background in business economics and IT. For nine years he worked on strategy and product quality in the family business Dominicus Natuursteen. Through its client Amels, part of Damen Yachting, he got to know superyacht building: a world with no room for error, where every product has to be perfect.

Pasjenka Lubbes came from ship and interior construction, working on retail interiors and the renovation of canal houses in and around Amsterdam. After moving to Zeeland, Pasjenka joined Dominicus Natuursteen. That is where their paths crossed, in the projects for superyacht building.

When the family stopped its yacht building branch, they both saw the same opportunity. At the end of 2020 they started Bliss Projects, in part of a farm barn in Waarde. The division of roles has stayed the same: together they sketch every concept, then Leonard finds the opportunities, clients and partners, while Pasjenka translates the idea into production, new applications and the work of the Specialists on board. From that combination CARVE grew, along with the idea of ceramics on the lightest possible core.