Estudio Vernís Manteca Butter Dish
Description
The Manteca butter dish should not fool you with its name, as it can hold other treasures too. It’s still the perfect complement to your breakfast, alongside our egg cruet and toast rack. Made individually, by hand in our studio. Fired with pine wood in our backyard.
MATERIAL stoneware
GLAZE inside chalk, outside unglazed –marked by ashes while woodfiring
SIZE 11 x 8 x 6 cm
TECHNIQUE slab-building
About the Artists
Estudio Vernís is a workshop that celebrates craft and the unexpectedness of wood-firing. Every piece is made individually, by hand, in our studio in Castell de Castells. Timeless, lasting, and ever-evolving ceramics designed to be functional and honest.
The studio was founded in the mountains of Alicante in 2019 by Alejandra and Coke, a duo who wanted to make use of their hands and natural resources to make something they identified with.
They aspire to a world where every object contains the traces of the hands that made it. That is why their fingerprints are in every step of the process, from the pinching of the clay, to the formulation of the glazes or the foraging of the wood, leaving a mark in a lasting and natural material, using primitive techniques and local resources.
The pieces that result form this are a labor of re-learning from the material and from the process, to allow it to set the pace and decide the result.