It started with a phone stand. The mugs came later.

The stands came first

Everyone sets their phone down twenty times a day, and almost everyone sets it down badly — face down on a counter, propped against a coffee tin, sliding off the arm of a chair. Our first ceramic phone stand was made to fix exactly that: a small, weighted piece of fired stoneware that gives a phone a proper place to rest, at the right angle to actually read from.

It's still what we make most, and still what most people find us for. Every stand is formed and finished by hand, cut to hold a phone with or without a case, and glazed so it won't scratch a screen or slide across a desk.

Then the mugs

The mugs weren't part of the plan. Customers who bought a stand for a desk or a bedside table started asking whether we made something to drink from in the same clay and the same glazes. So we did — wheel-thrown stoneware mugs, and stamped mugs that can carry a logo, a name, a date, or a design pressed into the wet clay before firing.

Mugs are the newer half of the studio and the fastest-growing one, especially for teams, gifts, and custom runs. They share the same clay body, the same kiln, and the same standard as the stands.

Second-generation, made in America

Pottery in this family isn't a career change. The wheel, the tools, and most of the glaze recipes were handed down, and everything still leaves one studio in the United States — nothing is outsourced, slip cast overseas, or drop-shipped.

How we work

High-fire stoneware, fired twice — bisque to cone 06, glaze to cone 6. Glazes are mixed and sieved in the studio, dipped by hand, and tested food safe. We work in batches the size of one kiln load, which keeps the range tight and the standard high.

Made to be used

Put the mugs in the dishwasher. Leave the stand on a desk that gets used every day. Fired stoneware is one of the most durable materials people have ever made — the worst thing you can do with either piece is save it for an occasion that never arrives.