Final month, we launched a assortment of limited-edition handmade soup bowls good for soup season. The gathering was curated by Casey Simring and Kayla Roolaart—our head tableware patrons over on the Food52 Store group—and full of wares from our neighborhood of potters. As we transfer nearer to spring menus and hotter climate this month, we’re again with a new limited-edition drop we’re enthusiastic about.
The launch options eight limited-edition, handmade butter dishes meant to be one-of-a-kind vessels to your favourite butter. As at all times, our purchasing group aimed to deliver collectively distinctive wares in quite a lot of completely different types, shapes, and designs and labored with a small assortment of potters and studios to construct that lineup. As soon as you discover the proper dish, place it in your eating desk or kitchen counter to maintain your butter of selection prepared for spreading—salted, unsalted, or whipped; something goes.
Preserve studying for a more in-depth have a look at the most recent additions to our Store. (Psst! A few of these butter keepers maintain a small quantity of water to maintain the butter gentle and spreadable. It is easy! Simply add the good things to the highest, plus sufficient water within the base to create an hermetic seal. Change the water each few days, and also you’re golden.)
Photograph by Ty Mecham
1. Handmade Butter Dish by Convival
- Studio Identify: Convivial
- Location: Kansas Metropolis, Missouri
- About This Dish: Crafted by the group at Convival, this dish encompasses a impartial coloration palette that may pair effortlessly with any dinner desk unfold.
- From the Studio: “Every little thing that we design and create at Convivial actually is a group effort from the design course of to bodily creating and carving each bit,” Danielle Coleman, Product Designer at Convivial, mentioned. “There’s nothing like seeing your imaginative and prescient for a bit come to life via the arms of a number of artisans who’re placing particular consideration into the main points so that every butter keeper appears, feels, and matches nicely.”
- Value: $96
Photograph by Ty Mecham
2. Handmade Butter Dish by This Quiet Mud
- Studio Identify: This Quiet Mud
- Location: Lake Forest, Illinois
- About This Dish: Designed and handmade by Dubhe Carreño of This Quiet Mud.
- From the Artist: “My artistic course of is anchored in recognizing relationships between kinds,” Carreño mentioned. “In nature, we benefit from the colours and textures based mostly on their distinction between every topic. The blue sky in distinction with the sandy land, for instance. In designing this butter dish, I loved creating distinction between the plate and the duvet. My intention was to create a visible motion, natural in form, asymmetrical, curvy, a morning sky holding a fluffy cloud.”
- Value: $96
Photograph by Ty Mecham
3. Handmade Butter Dish by Sawyer Ceramics
- Studio Identify: Sawyer Ceramics
- Location: San Diego, California
- About This Dish: Designed and handmade by Jonathan Sawyer of Sawyer Ceramics, this dish encompasses a raw-clay exterior and a blue-glazed inside.
- From the Artist: “Once I made this dish I needed a glance that was just a little bit rustic whereas additionally refined,” Sawyer mentioned. “Our partially glazed design achieves this steadiness as the marginally textured clay contrasts with our neatly utilized shiny glaze. To attain a modern search for this restricted assortment I selected a deep navy blue glaze.”
- Value: $57
Photograph by Ty Mecham
4. Handmade Butter Dish by Handmade Studio TN
- Studio Identify: Handmade Studio TN
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- About This Dish: Designed and handmade by the group at Handmade Studio TN in Nashville, this stunning dish has softly formed edges, a darkish matte glaze, and can get the eye it deserves in your desk.
- Value: $90
Photograph by Ty Mecham
5. Handmade Butter Dish by Erin Louise Clancy Ceramics
- Studio Identify: Erin Louise Clancy Ceramics
- Location: Queens, New York
- About This Dish: Designed and handmade by Erin Louise Clancy, this dish combines uncooked clay with glaze paint strokes.
- From the Artist: “This undertaking felt a bit like a full-circle second as the primary merchandise I launched via Food52 was a butter keeper,” Clancy mentioned. “I really like the quantity that the dome creates and the ah-ha second while you elevate it from its base plate. Equally, I like that past being a butter dish it might discover itself re-imagined as a garlic keeper, fancy dessert presenter, or actually the rest you’ve gotten the need to retailer.”
- Value: $65
Photograph by Ty Mecham
6. Handmade Butter Dish by New York Stoneware
- Studio Identify: New York Stoneware
- Location: Bronx, New York
- About This Dish: This blue magnificence was hand-designed, thrown, trimmed, glazed, and fired only for us. Will Reardon based New York Stoneware within the Bronx in 2013. Each object that comes from his studio is soulful, practical, and utterly handmade by him and his group.
- Value: $120
Photograph by Ty Mecham
7. Handmade Butter Dish by Appears to be like Like White
- Studio Identify: Appears to be like Like White
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- About This Dish: This white dish was created by Trudy Cane of Appears to be like Like White ceramics studio. With a textured edge and crowd pleasing lid, it will absolutely be the focal point at your subsequent ceremonial dinner.
- Value: $82
Photograph by Ty Mecham
8. Handmade Butter Dish by Recreation Heart
- Studio Identify: Recreation Heart
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- About This Dish: Designed and made only for us by Recreation Heart, a small Brooklyn-based ceramics studio run by artist Josephine Heilpern, will add some whimsy to your eating desk.
- Value: $75
