Batch 19 · Ash & Slate
Stoneware that earns its place on the table.
Wheel-thrown dinnerware, drinkware and vases from a two-person studio in Hudson, New York. Fired in batches of forty. Made to be used every single day, not admired from a shelf.
40pieces / batch
1,260°Cstoneware fire
12 yrsat the wheel
Batch 19 · shipping now
On the plinth.
Every piece is thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired by hand — so no two are identical. Weights and dimensions are given as the batch average.
The makers
Two people, one wheel,
forty pieces at a time.
Vessel is Nadia Ferreira and Owen Pike. We took over a former print shop on Warren Street in 2019, put a kiln where the presses were, and started throwing the plates we couldn't find anywhere else — heavy enough to feel like something, plain enough to disappear under food.
Nothing here is slip-cast or outsourced. Nadia throws, Owen trims and glazes, and the kiln decides the rest. A batch takes eleven days from wedged clay to packed box, and we only start the next one when the last is out the door.
Nadia & Owen
Vessel Studio · Hudson, New York
The glaze
Eleven days, three fires,
one unrepeatable surface.
Our glazes are mixed in-house from wood ash, local feldspar and iron oxide. The order below is the order it happens in — each stage has to fully dry before the next can begin.
Day 1 — 3
Throw & trim
Every piece starts as a 900g ball of grey stoneware, wedged by hand. Thrown wet, left to stiffen to leather-hard overnight, then trimmed on the wheel to find the foot.
Day 4 — 7
Dry & bisque
Greenware dries slowly on the shelf — rush it and it cracks. Then the first fire, to 980°C, which turns clay into something porous enough to drink the glaze.
Day 8 — 11
Glaze & fire
Dipped, wiped, stacked, and fired to 1,260°C over sixteen hours. The kiln cools for two days. Roughly one piece in nine doesn't make it out — those go to the seconds shelf.
AshWood ash + feldspar
SlateIron oxide 4%
MistCobalt trace
InkManganese + iron
OatmealUnglazed foot
Care & materials
Use it. That's the whole point.
Stoneware fired this hard is not delicate. Everything below is true of every piece we make.
Dishwasher safe
Vitrified to 1,260°C. Top rack, bottom rack, it doesn't care. No crazing, no dulling.
Oven & microwave
Up to 220°C. No glaze cracks, no metal. Don't take it straight from freezer to oven.
Lead & cadmium free
Independently tested every batch. Certificates are on file and posted with each firing.
Chip it, send it back
We'll repair a chipped foot or rim for free, for as long as the studio is open. Just email us.
Stockists & press
Where else you'll find us.
We keep the wholesale list short on purpose — five shops we'd send a friend to, and nothing sold through a marketplace.
MarchSan Francisco
Kaufmann MercantileBrooklyn
QuitokeetoLos Angeles
Nalata NalataNew York
Field StudyHudson
“The rare studio whose plates get heavier with meaning the more you eat off them.”
Hearth — The Table Issue, 2026
1,940 orders shipped
From people who eat off it daily.
★★★★★
“Bought the six-piece set eighteen months ago and it goes in the dishwasher four nights a week. Not one chip, not one dull spot. The weight is the thing — cheap plates feel like paper after these.”
★★★★★
“I run a twelve-seat restaurant and I've replaced our entire service with Vessel over three batches. Nadia will actually throw to a spec if you ask. Try getting that from a supplier.”
★★★★★
“The Mist vases are the only wedding gift anyone has asked me where I got. Ordered on a Tuesday, packed in wool and straw, arrived Friday without a scratch.”
Batch 20 opens Nov 4
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One email per firing — what's in it, what the glaze did, and a link forty-eight hours before it goes public. Nothing else, ever.
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