Day 1 — 3
Throw & trim
Every piece starts as a 900 g 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.
Home/The Studio
214 Warren Street · since 2019
A former print shop with a kiln where the presses were.
Two people, one wheel, forty pieces at a time. This page is the whole operation: how eleven days turn a bag of clay into a batch, what happens to the pieces that don't make it, and how to buy at wholesale.
11days per batch
1 in 9to the seconds shelf
5wholesale accounts
The makers
Nadia throws.
Owen trims and glazes.
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 has been at the wheel twelve years; Owen came from cabinetmaking, which is why the foot rings are the way they are. The kiln decides the rest, and it has opinions.
We only start the next batch when the last one is out the door. That is why things sell out and stay sold out — not scarcity marketing, just two pairs of hands.
Nadia & Owen
Vessel Studio · Hudson, New York
The eleven days
Wedged clay to packed box,
in the order it happens.
Our glazes are mixed in-house from wood ash, local feldspar and iron oxide. Each stage has to fully dry before the next can begin — that constraint sets the whole calendar.
Day 4 — 7
Dry & bisque
Greenware dries slowly on the north 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
The seconds shelf
One in nine comes out wrong.
Not wrong enough to break, just wrong enough that we won't sell it at full price. Every flaw is named and photographed. These are shop-only or by email — they don't go in the batch listing.
Slate Dinner Plate
A 2 cm patch on the underside where the glaze pulled back off the foot ring. Invisible on the table, food-safe, will never be seen once there's a plate of something on it.
$27$543 available
Ash Nesting Bowl ×2
Two bowls from a set of four that dried too near the door and pulled about 2 mm oval. They nest, they hold soup, they just won't sit perfectly flush inside each other.
$32$641 pair left
Bottle Vase, Mist
Touched its neighbour in the glaze fire and took a matte scar down one shoulder, about 4 cm. Structurally fine. Honestly one of our favourite pieces from batch 19.
$48$951 available
Wholesale
Five shops. We'd like
to keep it small.
We stock five retailers and three restaurants, and we're honest that a batch of forty doesn't stretch far. If the terms below work for you, send the form and Owen will reply within two working days.
- Minimum order
- 12 pieces, mixed freely across collections. No minimum on repeat orders.
- Trade price
- 50% of retail, ex-works Hudson. Restaurants throwing to spec are quoted separately.
- Lead time
- Four to six weeks — we slot wholesale into the batch calendar rather than jumping the queue.
- Throwing to spec
- Yes, from 24 pieces. Send a drawing or a plate you like and Nadia will throw a sample first.
- Payment
- 50% on order, balance on collection. Net 30 after your second order.
- Breakage
- Replaced free if it arrives broken. Photograph the box before you unpack it.
- Exclusivity
- None, but we won't add a second stockist within 40 miles of an existing one.
Wholesale enquiry
Tell us about the shop or kitchen. This form is a demo — it doesn't submit anywhere yet.
Come to the studio
The door is open three days a week.
There's no showroom and no appointment system. Walk in, look at the kiln, buy a second off the shelf if there's one you like.
Open hours
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The wheel is usually running Thursday mornings if you want to watch something get thrown.
Thu–Sat · 11:00 – 17:00
Throwing workshops
Four people, three hours, one evening a month. You throw three pieces, we fire the best one and post it to you six weeks later.
Monthly · $145 per seat
Where to find us
214 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534. Ten minutes' walk from the Amtrak station, blue door, no sign — look for the kiln vent.
studio@vessel-hudson.com