Our process harks back to an older era when machines weren’t available to do the ‘heavy lifting’ of production.  Each and every piece that comes out of our studio bears the mark of the human hand – each thrown on the wheel and carefully nursed by us to their finished state. Working exclusively in porcelain, the fickle but most lovely clay body around, we craft beautiful, modern and affordable heirloom ceramics with a story.

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Holiday | Striae | Patio | Raw | Askew | Special Projects

Holiday

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Unglazed porcelain casts of vintage hardware, strung up with leather and annealed black wire to hang from a tree or a corner of your home.

Striae

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A playful  lighting collection made of unglazed porcelain. Slipcast from hand-thrown designs for ultimate translucency, these pieces utilize varying surface heights to make subtle patterns from shadows.

Patio

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An homage to our outdoor sanctuaries and our favorite time of year. We combine luscious leathers and oxidized wire with our hand-thrown porcelain for truly unique indoor / outdoor pieces.

Raw

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Raw porcelain when high fired has the texture and heft of a polished river rock. We leave areas of these pieces unglazed to expose that texture, and contrast it with an array of glaze colors.

Askew

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Pieces are altered and skewed post-creation to form gently asymmetrical shapes, then covered in a foodsafe clear gloss glaze.

Special Projects

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Luminology

Individually thrown, thick-walled porcelain vessels referencing backyard fire pits for a new modern candle company, Luminology. Glazed in 10 lovely colors with bare sanded exteriors. Available for purchase on Luminology’s website.

The Thing Quarterly – Issue 11

A custom wine tumbler designed in collaboration with artist Chris Johanson for the summer 2010 issue of the Thing Quarterly, a quarterly object journal based in San Francisco. Available for purchase here.

Clive Coffee Mugs

A  custom fabricated hand-thrown (making each one unique) coffee mug for local roaster Clive Coffee, available for purchase in two glaze finishes here. The handle is designed for comfort, while the mug shape is perfect for warming up your hands on a cold morning. The Clive Coffee “C” is stamped on the inside, and the Clive logo is stamped on the bottom.

Clive Coffee :: Making Our Mugs from Clive Coffee on Vimeo.

Lovejoy Light Fixtures

A collaboration between Pigeon Toe Ceramics and Fix Studio. We fabricated (hand thrown on the wheel and then manipulated) the porcelain shades for pendant lights that now hang in Lovejoy Bakery. The shades were then airbrushed with a satin glaze to give a powder coated finish. You can purchase these lights here.

PTC+

PTC+ is an ongoing collaborative project between Pigeon Toe Ceramics and our favorite women artists. Designs are sold as a limited series, each being individually unique because of their completely handmade process. Below work by (in order) Alyson Graves, Kelly Britton-Andreini, and Alia Smith.