R L Foote Design Studio is a Melbourne-Hong Kong based design studio focused on delivering unique and contemporary ceramic flatware, interior design objects and event-based designs. We meticulously create everything in our Melbourne studio workshop. 

Our studio has a particular interest in the designed food and beverage experience, thinking not only about the physical elements of the space; the tableware, tables and seats, but also the ephemeral experience that runs alongside these objects. Imagining how the food and drink is served, eaten, played with, we conceptualise new food forms, textures, tastes, cultural influences and their effect on the dining experience.

R L Foote Design Studio was founded by installation artist, designer, chef and food designer Ryan L Foote whose diverse background provides a unique source of technical know-how and creative innovation.

Working with chefs, restaurants and interior designers, our team designs and produces custom tableware and objects to clients' specifications.

Our flagship site is based in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia, where you can see all our products being made in the workshop and glaze laboratory, visit our showroom, retail space and gallery, and attend classes and events.  

Ryan L Foote, who lives between Melbourne and Hong Kong, has had a wide-ranging career from across the worlds of art, design, food & beverage, theatre, fashion and events. He is best known for creating unique event-based multi-sensory artworks that involve food, fashion, art, design and installation art.  

Foote studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts, Majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practices and has gone on to have many exhibitions around Australia and overseas, creating large installations in places like the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square Melbourne, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne's GPO Building, and Flinders Lane Gallery, just to name a few.  

Simultaneous to his art practice, Foote designed and produced runway sets and launch parties for multiple fashion festivals and brands from Mercedes Australian Fashion, L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, Sydney Shanghai Fashion Week as well as individual clients like Chanel Australia and many more.  

As Foote’s installation art became increasingly immersive with elements of sound, light, fashion, he played with the inclusion of a culinary elements to his art at first partnering with chefs and catering firms and then developing and producing his own culinary creations. These striking recipes involved 3D printed foods, handmade flatware and were used for his own unique food art projects as well as partnering restaurants and events.  

These immersive food art events ended up giving rise to both R L Foote Design Studio and Chocolates By Ryan L Foote, two businesses that feed back into Foote’s art practise.

In early 2015, Foote set out to re-invent the classic chocolate bon bon with all his creative skills, playing with new technologies and looking at things from a different perspective, he created Chocolates by Ryan L Foote which is based in Hong Kong and fuses state-of-the-art 3D printing technologies with age-old chocolatier techniques to create amazing fractal, geometric and organic forms that are almost miniature forms of edible art.

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