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Potters, kilns,
and twelve years

Five makers, a wood-burning kiln, and a Brooklyn workshop devoted to stoneware that outlives trends.

Artist's hands cradling a ball of fresh clay above a pottery wheel

How we started

One wheel,
then a workshop

In 2014 Ione Kestrel rented a corner of a Brooklyn warehouse with a secondhand kick wheel and a conviction: machine-perfect dishes had made people hungry for the human trace in things.

The corner grew into a full studio. Five potters now throw, coil, glaze, and stoke alongside each other, and every custom order still starts with tea and a long talk about where the piece will live.

  • Small runs of wheel-thrown, hand-glazed stoneware
  • Custom orders for homes, cafés, and hotels
  • Nightly and weekend classes for all levels

The people

The hands behind the pots

Throwers, coil-builders, and a glaze obsessive — everyone here both produces work and teaches.

Ione Kestrel smiling in the studio holding a freshly thrown bowl

Ione Kestrel

Founder · Wheel & Wood-Fire

Twelve years throwing, and still happiest with muddy hands. Ione runs commissions and the yearly wood-firing, and throws each Ember Vessel personally.

Mara Ellison painting glaze onto a white earthenware vessel

Mara Ellison

Glaze & Surface

Trained in chemistry, fluent in color. Mara formulates our matte and crystalline surfaces and teaches the glazing workshops.

Jonas Reid steadying a tall sculptural form at the wheel

Jonas Reid

Sculpture & Form

Jonas takes clay beyond the useful into the sculptural — tall off-balance vessels poised on feet that shouldn't hold them.

Sofia Marchetti's finished tableware shelved in the studio

Sofia Marchetti

Hand-Building & Tableware

Sofia draws our tableware — plates, cups, and serving bowls engineered for chipped, busy, beloved daily use.

Custom orders

Ordering something of your own

Allow four to six weeks from sketch to last firing. Nothing gets built until you've signed off on the design.

Freshly thrown terracotta pot spinning on the studio wheel

  1. First chat

    We walk through your space and daily habits, and what mood the piece should carry. Photos and fabric swatches welcome.

  2. Sketches & samples

    Your maker drafts two or three directions with clays, glazes, and sizes. Choose one, or mix the best bits.

  3. Throwing & glazing

    Built, trimmed, bisque-fired, then finished in your glaze. We email progress shots at every stage.

  4. Firing & handover

    One last hot firing and a close inspection, then hand delivery in the city or insured shipping beyond it.

Get your hands dirty

Visit the workshop, meet the potters, and take a turn at the wheel — clay, tools, and firing included first time.

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