A house of two glazes, and one standard.
Kaolin makes stoneware to a single standard, in two glazes and ten pieces, and holds there on purpose. Each piece is turned, glazed and fired by hand and thrown only against the next kiln — the same clay, the same cone, shown under a satin grey or left bare and warm to the hand. The range does not grow: a wider one would be a quieter one, and the standard is the whole argument.
What we hold to.
Same clay, same kiln, same cone. The only variable is how far the glaze was taken.
- Made to order
- Nothing sits on a shelf. Each piece is thrown against the next firing, so the ware you buy is the ware just made.
- Thrown, never pressed
- Turned on the wheel by hand — no mould, no line — so no two pieces come out exactly alike.
- Cone 10, in reduction
- One clay, one cone, one fourteen-hour firing in an oxygen-starved kiln — the same for every piece.
- Ten pieces, no eleventh
- The range stops at ten because that is where the standard holds. A wider catalogue would be a quieter one.
- Every firing logged
- Clay, glaze, cone and kiln, recorded and dated — the card travels in the box, so a piece reads back to its firing.
Kounds
All of this was generated. The work was making it agree with itself.
KAOLIN is not a shop. There is no studio in Hannover and no kiln — the brand, the photographs, the ware and every word of it were made for this piece.
Generating pages is the easy half. The work is in making them hold together: one voice across every surface, figures that stay the same wherever they appear, and controls that behave the same way wherever you meet them. That is the part we build for shops that are real.