Ash fall
Nine hours of reduction at the front of the kiln left a heavy ash deposit on the tableware. The mugs came out with a green-grey skin.
Stoneware studio — Somerset, UK
Made from geological permanence
Hand-thrown vessels, wood-fired twice a year in small editions. Heavy in the hand, quiet on the table, built to outlast the trend it arrived in.
- Collection
- 12 pieces
- Body
- Grey stoneware
- Dispatch
- 3–5 days
01Hand-thrown in Somerset
02Wood-fired to 1300°C
03Food & dishwasher safe
04Editions of forty
02 — The atelier
Fired twice a year. Gone for good.
Each edition is thrown on the wheel over eight weeks, dried slowly, then packed into the wood kiln. Forty hours of stoking later, the ash settles into the glaze and no two pieces come out the same. When an edition is gone, the form is retired.
- Firings a year
- 2×
- Pieces per edition
- 40
- Kiln temperature
- 1300°C
03 — Kiln log
What the fire did
Each firing is recorded. The results below are what the kiln decided, not what we planned.
Thermal shock
Two shelves cooled too fast. Eleven pieces lost, the rest kept a fine crackle through the glaze — sold as seconds.
Salt finish
We salted the firebox at peak temperature. The orange-peel texture on the carafes has not repeated since.