Milja Bannwart is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist and industrial designer.
Her work encompasses ceramics, sculpture, product design, packaging design,
and branding. Born in Berlin, Bannwart was raised in a creative, multicultural household, her mother Finnish and her father Swiss. When she was seven, she took pottery classes at a community center, beginning a lifelong passion
for clay. She learned ceramic slip casting while studying at Pratt Institute and fell in love with the technique.

Following a career spanning over 20 years as a product designer and packaging design director in New York City, Bannwart founded Studio Vuono in 2023. Her aim was to create thoughtfully designed, well-crafted objects for the home that could serve as meaningful touchstones in the daily rituals of life. Her work is inspired by mid-century Scandinavian design as well as childhood summers spent immersed in Finnish nature.

Bannwart studied Industrial Design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.