Thrown on the wheel
Every piece is turned by hand from a single lump of stoneware, then trimmed and finished the next day. The throwing rings and the potter's marks stay — they're the fingerprint of the person who made it.
About Ceramics Shop
One potter, one wheel, one kiln
We started with a second-hand wheel in a borrowed studio and a stubborn belief that the plates and cups you use every day should be made by a person, not a machine — and should carry the marks to prove it.
Our story
Ceramics Shop began the year I finally learned to centre clay. I'd taken an evening pottery class in Icheon — Korea's old ceramics town — mostly to get away from a screen, and spent the first month fighting the wheel and collapsing every pot I tried to pull. Then one evening the clay went quiet under my hands and stayed put, and that was it. I was hooked on the feeling of turning a shapeless lump into something you could drink from.
A few years and a lot of failed firings later, we opened a small studio in Seongsu-dong with one wheel, a slab roller, and an electric kiln in the back. Everything you see here is made in that room: thrown, trimmed, dried, bisque-fired, glazed by hand from glazes we mix ourselves, and fired a second time to 1,240°C. Nothing is bought in, nothing is outsourced, and every kiln load still feels a little like opening a present.
We make by hand because it shows. The faint spiral of the throwing rings, the way a glaze pools darker in a curve, the tiny differences between one bowl and the next — those aren't flaws to sand away, they're proof a person made it. That's the whole idea behind the studio, and the invitation we extend to you: live with pottery that could only ever be yours, and let an ordinary meal feel a little more made-for-you.
What we stand for
Three things we won't compromise on
Made to last generations
High-fired stoneware is dense, hard, and chip-resistant, so a good plate outlives a hundred disposable ones. Real clay, hand-mixed glazes, and plastic-free packing — objects you keep, not replace.
Made to be used daily
Nothing here is too precious to eat off. Our pottery is food-safe, dishwasher-safe, and built for real tables — for weeknight dinners, morning coffee, and the odd chip that gives it a history.
See what's come out of the kiln
Have a look through the collection, or come visit the studio in Seongsu-dong to watch a piece being thrown and pick one out in person.