Sand — Glazed only where food meets the piece. Everywhere else, bare stoneware.
Glazed only where food meets the piece; everywhere else bare, warm to the hand.
Five pieces: two plates, a bowl, a cup, and the serving bowl the set is built around. Where each stood in the kiln stays legible in the finished clay, and we never sort them to match.
The idea
Leave the outside bare and the stoneware keeps the mark of its firing. We glaze only where food sits — the rest stays clay.
- Glaze
- White gloss, interior only
- From
- € 46
The clay, left to speak.
Sand came from the opposite instinct: leave the outside bare, so the stoneware keeps the mark of the kiln it came through. Warm to the hand and a little different from every angle, it is the pot at its most honest. We glaze only where food sits — the rest is clay, and the clay is the point.
The surface
Bare fired stoneware without — warm, faintly grained, it takes the light rather than returning it. Within, a clean white glaze that wipes like porcelain. The outside keeps a fine tooth, cool at first touch and warming to the hand, so a cup reads as the clay it was thrown from.
Why no two match
Bare clay keeps the record of the kiln: pieces set nearer the flame emerge a half-tone warmer, and are never sorted to match.
In use
Living with it
Dishwasher, microwave and a warm oven — all fine. Just no jump from cold straight to real heat, or the glaze can craze.
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The other answer — Oyster.
Glazed inside and out — the clay disappears beneath a satin grey.
