Meet the makers: Studio Ostra
Studio Ostra throws our Day Marker Cup and Sun Ceramic Dish. A look at the handle, the glaze buckets and the colors.
Our cups and dishes are made by Studio Ostra, a small ceramics studio where every piece is thrown on the wheel. We came to them with a few drawings and a list of colors. They came back with a lot of questions about hands.
Starting with the handle
The Day Marker Cup began with its handle. It's a closed, rounded loop, thick enough to hold without pinching, and set low so the cup sits balanced in the hand when it's full. The rim is softly rounded. The body is a plain cylinder, wide enough to wrap both hands around. Early versions were taller. The one that stayed is shorter and steadier, the kind of cup that can sit on a desk all afternoon.
Matching the colors
The studio keeps its glazes in tall buckets along one wall, and getting our cobalt right took more test tiles than anyone wants to count. The cup now comes in cobalt, red and butter, the same colors you'll see across the rest of the range. Because each piece is glazed by hand, the color can sit a little deeper in one spot than another. We like that.
A dish for small things
The Sun Ceramic Dish is low and wide, with a rounded rim and a warm, glossy yellow glaze. It's sized for a bar of soap by the sink, or rings and keys by the door. The studio thinks of it as the cup's quieter partner, and they share a shelf in the kiln room.
Where to see them
You can see more of the studio on our makers page, and find the cup and dish alongside the rest of our objects.
