Materials
The short answer: real ceramic, held in a resin binder, finished by hand in our studio. The longer answer is below, because we would rather you know exactly what you will be holding.
Engineered ceramic is a composite. Real ceramic particles, finely milled, held in a resin binder that carries them into one continuous form.
The ceramic is the part you feel. It gives the piece its weight, its density, and the coolness that meets your hand when you first pick it up. The binder holds that ceramic together and keeps it from behaving the way fired pottery behaves.
Stone-white, and the same stone-white all the way through. There is no coating over the top of it and no color layer that can wear away.
The surface is velvet-matte. It takes light rather than bouncing it back, so the form reads as shape and shadow instead of highlight and glare. Most people notice the weight first. These pieces are heavier than they look.
Traditional pottery is shaped from wet clay and fired in a kiln, then usually coated with glaze, a thin layer of glass melted onto the outside. Glaze is what makes glazed ceramic shine, and it is also where glazed ceramic tends to fail. It can craze into a web of fine cracks. It can chip away from the clay underneath.
Engineered ceramic carries no glaze, because it does not need one. The color and the finish are the material itself. There is nothing layered on top to chip off, and no fired clay body to crack along a hairline.
It is also less brittle. Fired ceramic has no give in it at all. The binder gives engineered ceramic a little, which matters for something that will be lifted, set down, and carried from one home to another over many years.
It needs no sealing and no polish.
Dust it with a soft, dry cloth. Skip household cleaners and furniture polish, both of which can burnish a matte surface into an uneven shine over time. Keep it out of long hours of direct sun, which will eventually change the color of nearly any material.
Indoors it will not fade, and it does not hold odors. Handled with care, it keeps its color and its surface.
Every piece is made after you order it. We design the forms ourselves and we make them here, in our own studio in Massachusetts. No part of production is sent out to anyone else.
We finish each one by hand. We sand it to the velvet-matte surface, look it over closely, and wrap it ourselves. Those five business days are that work.
If a piece arrives damaged or not as described, tell us and we will make it right with a replacement or a refund. The full terms are in our returns and refunds policy, and you can reach us any time at hello@myeverform.com.
