Objects for a slower table.
Forme works with six independent makers across four countries to bring hand-thrown stoneware, mouth-blown glass and honest textiles into everyday rooms — made to be used daily, not saved for company.
We would rather sell you one bowl you keep for twenty years than four you replace in two.
Every piece in the shop is made by hand, in small batches, by a maker we can name. Nothing here is mass-produced, and nothing here is precious to the point of unusable.
Two ways
to shop the range.
The Quiet Table
Tableware, glassware and linens for the meals that happen most — a Tuesday supper, a Sunday spent at the table longer than planned.
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After Hours
Lighting, vessels and textiles for the hours after the plates are cleared — low light, warm materials, rooms built for slowing down.
Shop the editReached for
again and again.
We visit every workshop before a single piece ships.
No catalogue, no sample sent by courier. Naomi flies to the workshop, watches a piece made from raw material to finished object, and only then decides whether it belongs in the shop. That has meant walking away from beautiful things made under conditions we would not put our name behind.
The glaze on our dinner plates comes out of the kiln different every single time. We stopped trying to standardise it years ago.— Diego Ordóñez, Casa Ordóñez, Oaxaca
Notes on material
and making.
The Case for Fewer, Better Things
Why we would rather sell you one bowl you keep for twenty years than four you replace in two.
A Note on Clay: Inside the Oaxaca Workshop
What a week spent at Casa Ordóñez taught us about reactive glaze, and why no two plates should ever match.
How to Set a Table That Actually Gets Used
Six rules we stole from restaurants, and the one piece of advice we ignore completely.
The Lamp Problem: Why Good Light Is So Hard to Buy
Two years, four prototypes and one very patient stone cutter in Volterra.
Objects worth
keeping.
Twelve pieces, six makers, one edit at a time. New arrivals land the first week of every month.
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