When we started Remodelista a decade ago, the ceramics boom was just getting going; 10 years later, a new crop of ceramicists (mostly women, for some reason) has changed the way we think about dinnerware.
Tracie Hervy
We’ve admired Tracie Hervy’s delicate, perfectly proportioned ceramic pieces for a while now; but we hadn’t seen her work in person until this fall’s Field + Supply in Kingston, NY (it was worth the wait).
Sarah Kersten
We first got to know Bay Area ceramicist Sarah Kersten when she exhibited at our Remodelista markets; she’s since gone on to grow her practice to include dinnerware, fermentation jars, covered bowls, and vases.
Founded by Portland, OR-based Sarah Van Raden, Notary Ceramics uses locally sourced clays and is focused on minimal forms (including the Simple Mugs shown above); the pieces are available directly from Notary Ceramics and from Erica Tanov.
Notary Ceramics
Clam Lab founder Clair Catillaz focuses on “elegant, form-focused objects that are made to be touched and used” and are produced in small batches on a human-powered kick wheel or cast from handmade molds.
Clam Lab
Janaki Larsen, a potter based in Vancouver, British Columbia, says, ““I love dirt.
Janaki Larson
It wasn’t the academic aspect of art that really interested me, I just wanted to make things.” Her ceramics have a wabi-sabi quality and are glazed in matte blacks, grays, and whites (Janaki refers to these hues as her ‘non-colors'”).
Akiko
Akiko Graham, originally from Hokkaido, Japan, makes handmade stoneware tableware—either wheel thrown or slab built—in her Seattle studio.
Natalie Weinberger is a Brooklyn-based studio potter and ceramic designer working on a range of custom and creative projects; her work can be found at Primary Essentials in Brooklyn.
Natalie Weinberger
LA-based Victoria Morris’ work is inspired in part by mid-century Scandinavian forms as well as traditional Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship; her White Speckled Lidded Canisters are available from March in San Francisco; prices start at $400.
Henry Street Studio is a small-batch Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ceramics studio founded several years ago by mother-and-daughter team Loren and Aliza Simons; contact them directly for ordering information.
Henry Street Studio
We first posted on ceramicist Paul Greif in 2012, when we toured her Brooklyn house (“I’ve set myself a creative goal, to make everything in my kitchen by hand, including my tableware,” she said at the time).
Paula Greif
View her work at Paula Greif (she is busy at work making new pieces, which will be available soon).
Founded by Belgian-born artist Delphine Lippens, Humble Ceramics produces “artisan pottery made with mindfulness in South Los Angeles, one small batch at a time.” The Stillness Dinner Collection shown above is $105 from Shoppe Amber.
Humble Ceramics
Northern California-based Julie Cloutier spent more than a decade working in small SF architecture firms before striking out on her own as a ceramicist.
Julie Cloutier
Kati Von Lehman
Portland, OR-based artist Kati Von Lehman makes ceramic tableware from her home studio. Shown above is her three-piece dinner set; contact her directly to order.
Miro Made This
Phoenix, Arizona–based Miro Chun was a practicing architect when, unable to find prep and serving bowls she liked, she took up ceramics to remake the tableware in her kitchen.