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Creative industries

A city for young creators

November 28, 2021
Welcome to a city where young entrepreneurs have the courage and inspiration to create unique products with passion and perseverance.

Iași has always been the place for creators. From the poets and writers, artists and actors of the past, that shaped Romania’s culture, to the present day entrepreneurs that create unique fashion and decorations, architecture, handmade gifts and crafts, the city is filled with talent and ideas.

Browse the list below to discover their work and how you can get your hands on their products. Many of them sell through their online shops and social media pages, so you might not find physical shops in the city, but it’s worth the while to contact them.

Or, if you plan to start your own venture in Iași, don’t hesitate to get in touch. They might help you make it here.

In this guide:

Photo by Organica Balcanica

Creative businesses
Organica Balcanica is an interdisciplinary approach of visual design and user experience to ceramic craft. Here is where the curiously natural is felt with all sense, studied, transformed, and manufactured by Cristina Poncu, in her studio in Iași. Recommended for: personal space, intimate & calming setups, SPA decorations, boutique hotels, sustainable interiors and plant rooms.
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Photo by Teluric

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Teluric creates unique leather bags and handmade jewellery. They reuse and recycle what goes into the Teluric bags, so that, giving them a new life, they can leave room for new life in the environment where we all live.
Strada Stroici nr 8C, Iași 700373
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Photo by levisez.ro

Creative businesses
Levisez is a local brand of clothes made sustainably from recycled materials (upcycled), 100% natural. Maria and Alexandru started with an idea that turned into a living room project. They now have a vision and plans for the future: "we want to be part of the change that matters". In their workshop they use only upcycled materials - rolls of footage of various sizes recovered from textile factories, which would end up in the landfill - which they turn into clothing. No collection is the same as before, every lot we recover is different. This search gives rise to hybrid ideas, from which drawn drawings become bold cuts, which later become new clothes.
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Photo by pamantiu.ro

Creative businesses
Pământiu is Mădălina's wonderful journey to create unique, handmade objects from modelling clay. With a distinctive color palette and style, Mădălina's brooches are the ideal small gift for your loved ones.
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Maison Chouchou is the fashion workshop developed under Alexandra’s signature. Leaving art completely influence her work, Alexandra created an eclectic clothing style that seeks for confidence, comfort and an intensive self sense of what a woman truly is.The workshop brings clean cuts, quality fabrics and complimentary design. But this was also brought by others. You are not monotonous. You are vibrant, you are spread in so many colors and cases, you have different moods and complex feelings. You are unitary, but so different in every moment that you meet. Maison Chouchou thinks of clothing that is adequate for the whole you, that influence, that strengthen you, that reflect you completely.
Fundac Lascăr Catargi, Iași 700107
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Photo by Bulb27

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Bulb27 is a project of applied art on industrial and vintage objects. Whether we are talking about industrial shuttles used in textil industry from the former G.D.R. or the bugle used on Ford cars model T from the '40s, objects transposed in lamps loses their primary function and in some cases mimic organic or industrial structures.
Strada Aurel Vlaicu, Iași 700381
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Photo by Olov

Creative businesses
Silver accessories, made entirely by hand, in peace, with passion, in a minimalist design that captures different subtleties of the personality and reflects them.
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Photo by Chotronette

Creative businesses
Chotronette is a design duo comprised of Silvia Chiteala and Laura Cazacu, based in Iasi, Romania. We’re obsessed with Frida Kahlo, retro punk music, Art Nouveau architecture, Wes Anderson’s movies and Victorian glasshouses.
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Photo by Atelier Magrit

Creative businesses
Atelier Magrit is an organic ceramic studio that offers the uniqueness of natural handmade earthenware, with the noble beauty you’d expect of fine art.
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Photo by Lavanda Laurei - Facebook

Local products
Lavender helps calm the nervous system, removes insomnia and headaches and has healing and antiseptic effects. Started by Laura in 2015 in Iași, this boutique shop sells soap, body care products, candles, lotions and many more lavender products.
Bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt 4, Iași 700259
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Photo by Flair Scent - Facebook

Local products
A love story with and about the craft of scented soy wax candles. Andra is the mastermind behind this wonderful business producing one-of-a-kind scented candles.
Strada Albineț 3, Iași 700142
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