Collection: Ceramic

Sicily and Chiang Mai, unrelated as it sounds, is where this collection begins.

Ceramica Bevilacqua works out of Campofranco, Sicily, hand-throwing and hand-painting every piece - vases, candle holders, lamp bases, and the testa di moro, the Moor's head planter that has stood on balconies across the island since a twelfth-century Palermo legend gave it its shape. Bevilacqua's version keeps every traditional detail - the pomegranate crown, the rope-twist brow, the painted gaze - while quieting the palette so the baroque scrollwork can breathe.

Further east, Prempracha's Collection has shaped stoneware in San Kamphaeng, near Chiang Mai, since 1986, and is still run by the family that founded it. Their plates and bowls come in techniques with their own names - Tie Dye, where the glaze is brushed on in loose, bleeding strokes rather than laid flat; Drip Glaze; Kintsugi - each one visibly the record of a hand moving a brush, not a machine following a pattern.

What the two workshops share matters more than what separates them: nothing here comes off a mold. The vase or bowl that arrives will not be quite like the one in the photograph - a difference that is not a flaw, but the whole point.