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Est. 2019 — Melbourne

Objects made slowly, for rooms that breathe.

Small-batch homewares thrown, woven and shaped by hand — from a quiet studio on the city’s northern edge.

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Cream stoneware vase holding two dried grass stems, resting on washed linen

Mara Stoneware Vase — No. 04

The Collection

Four pieces, this season
Hand-thrown ivory stoneware vase on a rust marble plinth

Mara Stoneware Vase

Unglazed white clay, hand-built

$185

Softly creased oatmeal linen throw, detail of the weave

Field Linen Throw

European flax, stonewashed

$220

Hand-shaped oak serving board with slender handle

Grove Serving Board

Solid oak, hand-shaped & oiled

$95

Clear glass carafe and tumblers beside a single cotton stem

Ripple Glass Carafe

Mouth-blown recycled glass

$110

A maker's hands centring pale clay on a spinning pottery wheel
Our Craft

Nothing here was made in a hurry.

Every piece in our collection begins in the hands of an Australian maker — a potter in the Dandenongs, a weaver in Castlemaine, a woodworker two doors down from our own studio. We commission in small batches, usually twenty pieces or fewer, and we wait as long as the work takes. Some vases spend three weeks in the kiln queue. We think the patience shows.

Materials are chosen to age rather than date: local stoneware clays, European flax woven and stonewashed for softness, salvaged oak rubbed with nothing but oil. There are no seconds hidden in our shelves and no seasonal churn — when a form is right, we keep it, and when a piece sells out, it returns only when its maker is ready.

“Every piece feels like it was already loved before it reached our shelf. The vase we bought three years ago still stops guests mid-sentence.”
Helena — collected since 2021
Showroom

12 Foundry LaneEastcombe VIC 3068
Australia

Hours

Wed – Sat, 10am – 5pmSunday, 10am – 3pm

Appointments

Monday & TuesdayPrivate visits by arrangement —
write to us or call the studio.