Les Guimards Desk Set: Charcoal Weekly & Undated or a vessel for small

or a vessel for small treasures

holds pens

Projects find their proper rhythm when viewed against the year's entirety

with joinery left visible because that's the honest way to build it

it transforms the everyday pour into quiet ceremony

Les Guimards Desk Set: Charcoal Weekly & Undated or a vessel for smallA pen cup and catchall in a deep charcoal glaze, dipped to a clean, level line above a band of bare stoneware. The color reads nearly black, warmed from beneath by the greige clay it's poured over slate, cast iron, the dark end of natural modernism. We commissioned this pen cup and catchall from Nathalie and Christophe Hurtault, made for Wms&Co. in France. They throw each piece on the wheel at their workshop in Saint Amand en Puisaye, in Burgundy,