Sage Ceramic Collection

LIMITED EDITION
Sage Ceramic Collection

Three cups inspired by three California sages. 

White Sage
Salvia apiana

White sage grows along the coastal slopes of Southern California, silver-leafed, salt-aired, used in purification and prayer for longer than anyone can trace. This cup carries that same quality. Pale and luminous at the edges, with a surface that catches light the way sage does in morning fog. 

Desert Sage
Artemisia tridentata

Desert sage spreads across the Great Basin in every direction, drought-hardened and deeply aromatic, surviving on almost nothing and asking nothing in return. Warm and earth-toned, this cup feels like open land and dry heat. Made for mornings that ask nothing of you, but presence.

Black Sage
Salvia mellifera

Black sage blooms small and white but darkens at the root — named for the deep color of its stems in dry season. This cup holds that same depth. Dark, grounded, absorbing light rather than reflecting it. Made for stillness, for the end of the day, for tea drunk slowly in low light.

How they're made

Fermina and Eusebio have been working with ceramics in Mexico since 2016 — developing their own clay recipes, reimagining conventional forms, drawing from prehispanic tradition and Japanese craft in equal measure and always moving in their own direction.

Each cup in this collection is made from a custom porcelain body — kaolin, feldspar, and quartz — silky to the touch and occasionally translucent, light enough to feel almost surprising in the hand. The sage colorways are achieved through custom staining with copper carbonate and rutile, materials that shift and deepen through firing, never landing exactly the same way twice.

The cups are wheel-thrown on plaster molds and finished by hand, then fired to cone 6 — 1240°C — with a thin sheer glaze that lets the clay speak for itself. Materials are sourced between Mexico and the United States.

No two are identical. Each one carries the evidence of hands.

Care

These cups were made for herbal tea and traditional tea settings — small enough to hold a single moment, thin enough to feel the warmth through the wall. They pair naturally with loose leaf teas, with ceremony, inviting your into the practice of slowing down.

Rinse with warm water after each use. Avoid stacking to protect the rim. Microwave and machine wash safe, though neither feel quite right for cups like this.

A note

This is a limited edition collection. 100 sets. Once we are out, we are out.

Photography by Jer Aquino.