Forty pieces a month. One pair of hands.
Hand-thrown stoneware from a one-person studio in Asheville, North Carolina. Made to be used, not displayed.
Most of what's on your table was made by nobody in particular.
A factory doesn't choose a glaze. It doesn't notice when a bowl fights back on the wheel.
Every piece here was made by one person, on a named day, in a room you could visit.
And that person will answer your email. Usually the same afternoon.
It starts as a lump of grey clay.
I throw every piece myself, on a wheel I bought second-hand. Centering the clay takes about a minute. Learning to do it took years, and I'm still learning.
Each piece is trimmed the next morning, dried for a week, fired once, glazed by hand, and fired again. Nothing is poured into a mould. If two cups match, that was luck.
Then the door closes. Forty hours at 2,300 degrees. Nothing to do but wait.
This is the part nobody sees.
Every firing is a small gamble. The glaze runs or it doesn't. The door opens, and you find out.
This month's shelf.
Everything here is in stock and ships within a week. When it's gone, it's gone until the next firing.
Iron Cup
$38Stoneware · Bare clay, ash-glazed rim · 12 oz
Tenmoku Bowl
$92Stoneware · Iron tenmoku glaze · 9 in
Bud Vase
$54Dark stoneware · Matte bone glaze · 6 in
Dinner Plates, set of four
$215Stoneware · Satin ash glaze · 10.5 in
Need a whole table?
Restaurants, weddings, a full kitchen: commissions open twice a year. Ask, and I'll tell you when the next kiln has room.
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Every order ships from the studio within a week, wrapped by the same hands that threw it.
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