Les Guimards Desk Set: Charcoal

A pen cup and catchall in a deep charcoal glaze, dipped to a clean, level line above a band of bare stoneware. The color reads nearly black, warmed from beneath by the greige clay it's poured over — slate, cast iron, the dark end of natural modernism.

We commissioned this pen cup and catchall from Nathalie and Christophe Hurtault, made for Wms&Co. in France. They throw each piece  on the wheel at their workshop in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, in Burgundy, where the grey stoneware clay comes from their own quarry and is prepared by hand. Christophe mixes every glaze himself, from raw materials chosen to be safe for the people who work with them.

Use the tall vessel for pencils and pens, the low dish for clips, coins, a watch — or a toothbrush and a ring by the sink. Stoneware, glazed inside and above the dip line, raw below. Dishwasher and microwave safe. Cup and catchall, sold together.

Part of our Les Guimards Ceramics and The Ceramics Edit collections.