Palinopsia is a rare state where you keep seeing an object, long after you’ve stopped looking at it. It’s about lasting impressions, and so are we. Pushing back on disposability culture, we make for keeps and bang the no-ho-hum drum. Our handmade ceramics have stories baked into them, each a one-and-only, with the swagger of signature style. We subscribe to the chaos of variety and celebrate difference because that’s where life lives. Style minimalists, we’re maxed out in personality. Plate up on a ceramic canvas and let your food write the rest.
"I trained in fashion and textile design and explored multiple industries to refine my design and development skills before settling on clay. Something about clay and the mineral-wizardry behind firing a glaze always intrigued me. There’s something magic about the plates on your table coming from the earth beneath the feet of the artists who made them. About wondering what that earth’s seen, who’s trodden upon it, and how it’s ended up on your table. Time is written in mud. After 17 years developing products for big-box retailers, I became acutely aware of the disconnect between maker, craft and consumer. I wanted to build a business that prioritises creativity, connection, and community, reflecting my practised values in everything I do. I'm excited about Palinopsia's future and deeply grateful for everyone who has supported us. Thank you for welcoming us into your homes and making us a part of your mealtime rituals. It is a profound honour."
~ Tamara Bajic
To Each Their Own
These aren’t your bog-standard ceramic clones. Each piece wears a design swayed by hot-kiln chemistry. That marble coloured jug is the lovechild of handmade processes and reactive glazes. Some items show a family resemblance, and others look so different you’ll suspect the milkman. Eat from a piece that has no replication in the world.
Planet to Plate
What we do and don’t do matters. In constant conversation, we continue to modify our environmental and social influence from design to delivery. And our people and partners are all-in, in terms of responsible trading and reducing plastic and waste. Always innovating, brainstorming and tweaking to make strides in sustainability and durability, we take a planet perspective.
From Portugal with Love
From our community of makers to your table of shakers. Break bread and celebrate the craft of clay shaping. In a village by the sea, our family-run studios honour a legacy of artisanship. Here, roads follow a front of silvery olive trees, moving in pine-salted air, and the art of ceramics is as rich as the minerals in the clay. We create for connection, collaboration and the planet. It starts and ends as mud.
From Thailand with Love
Nestled between rice fields and cool temperate rainforests in North-East Thailand, a small female-led team of ceramicists reimagines organic stoneware with raw and earthy design elements to reconnect us with our planet. Embracing slow living, each carefully considered organic shape is handmade and finished with a flourish of spontaneity during firing, making each piece a unique surprise and joy.
Imperfect Stories
We experiment with colour, but we’re base-shape loyal so you can add pieces, swap them out or have an extra set for your in-laws. Using only natural, food safe, raw materials, our items are people-friendly feast-enablers. We use raw materials, frits and oxides because the process is dynamic enough for uniqueness but stable enough to deliver design DNA. Because regular stains produce regulated pieces, our glazes blend our new and ancient techniques with contemporary tweaks.
