We are a collective of four designers, two ceramists and one product photographer working out of a workshop in Woodstock. The pieces you see here started as commissions for cafés, design shops and galleries, and each one is documented with process photos, material notes and measurements in millimetres.
Limited runs leave the kiln and the bench every few weeks. If you run a shop or a hospitality space and want to see how a series would sit in your room, the fastest way is to write to us and arrange a visit.
New here? Start with the reviews from past commissions or browse the full range of studio services.
Most commissions start as a short brief: what the piece is for, where it will sit, and how often it gets handled. From there we agree on materials, a finish sample, and a realistic lead time. Below are the three routes we take most often.
One lamp, one bowl, one cushion. Useful when you want to test a glaze or a weave before committing to a larger run. We document the piece with process photos and a material sheet.
Between eight and forty units, thrown or woven in repeated sessions so the tone stays consistent. This is the route cafés and design shops usually take for tableware and textiles.
A named collection built around one material story, from reclaimed timber to brushed brass. We handle the photography, the technical sheets, and the numbering of each piece.
Not sure which route fits? Read a few studio reviews to see how past commissions were scoped.
We are a small collective in Woodstock, Cape Town. Between us we throw, weld, dye and photograph, which means most commissions stay in one workshop instead of passing through five suppliers. Below is what that looks like in practice, from a single replacement bowl to a full table setting for a café.
Stoneware thrown on the wheel in batches of 12 to 40 pieces. We keep wall thickness between 6 and 8 mm so a plate survives a commercial dishwasher without feeling heavy in the hand. Glaze samples go out before the first firing.
Pendant families in 120, 180 and 240 mm diameters, wired for E27. The brushed finish is left unlacquered on purpose, so it darkens slowly with the room. Linen shades are cut and sewn in-house to match your ceiling drop.
Wool and raw cotton dipped in acacia bark, madder root and onion skin. Every dye lot shifts a little, so we log the bath recipe and keep a swatch card on file. Woven on a floor loom at 1400 mm width, then washed neutral to set the pigment.
Benches, low stools and shelving built from salvaged Oregon pine and local hardwood. We work to your floor plan and send dimensioned drawings in millimetres before cutting, so nothing arrives that will not fit through the door.
Daylight shots of the wheel, the kiln shelf, the dye bath. Useful if you are a gallery writing a wall text or a shop building a product page. We hand over the raw files alongside the edited set.
Each piece ships with a sheet listing material, glaze or finish, weight and real measurements. Glaze and dye samples can be posted ahead of a commission if you need to check a colour against your interior.
Commissions run from the Woodstock workshop, with limited runs for design shops, cafés and galleries. See how a full commission is structured on workflow.html, or look through finished pieces in projects.html.
Most visitors arrive from a shop, a café or a gallery and want to see how a commission actually runs before they write to us. These three threads cover the pieces we get asked about most: the Woodstock tableware series, the brushed brass lighting family, and the naturally dyed textiles. Each one carries its own material notes and millimetre measurements.
Studio visits in Woodstock are by arrangement. Glaze samples ship on request.
Tableware
Twenty-four pieces in high-fired white stoneware, burnished by hand and finished with a matte bone glaze. Wall thickness sits between 6 and 8 mm so the plates stay light enough for daily service.
Read the case notesLighting
Three diameters, 120 mm through 240 mm, with raw linen shades stitched in the workshop. The finish darkens slowly with age rather than flaking, which is why we keep it unsealed.
See the pendant familyTextiles
Acacia bark, madder root and onion skin, dyed in batches and woven on a floor loom at 1400 mm width. Every batch gets a colour card, so a reorder can be matched reasonably closely.
Browse the dye records