Los Angeles is where Kaitlyn's mid-century sourcing trips land most directly. Every piece in this collection is vintage, pulled from the city's deep studio-pottery and mid-century design history rather than reproduced from it. A mid-century modern ceramic canister and a Blenko cobalt glass bowl both carry the clean, confident lines that define the era, sourced whole rather than reissued.
Studio pottery runs especially deep here: a Yukio Onaga tea bowl, a studio pottery green cup, a braided rim terracotta bowl: each piece carrying the individual glaze and form variation that only comes from a single maker's hand, not a factory run. A rustic ceramic vase and a brutalist ceramic vase form push that same studio sensibility toward heavier, more sculptural territory.
Art and small objects fill out the rest of the range: a surrealist horse collage artwork, a brass paper weight, a rippled vintage shot glass. A clay and wire mini sculpture and a mini sculpture planter bring genuinely experimental, artist-made forms into a collection that otherwise leans toward functional objects. A ruffled collar vessel closes out the range with the kind of organic, hand-manipulated silhouette that studio ceramicists working in LA became known for.
Los Angeles' mid-century design history is inseparable from its studio-craft scene. The same decades that produced the city's landmark architecture also produced a wave of individual ceramicists working in small studios rather than factories, and this collection draws specifically from that overlap. A piece here usually carries a visible signature of its maker's hand: a slightly asymmetrical rim, a glaze that pools differently across two ostensibly matching pieces.
That studio lineage is also why so much of this collection skews toward smaller, more personal objects (cups, bowls, small sculptures) rather than large furniture. LA's mid-century studio scene was built around exactly this scale: functional, handmade, meant to be used daily rather than displayed as a single statement piece.
Because every item here is vintage and individually sourced, styling this collection works best as an accumulation over time rather than a single purchase. A single well-chosen studio piece, given room to be noticed, tends to do more for a shelf than several competing for the same attention.
Shop the collection for a piece with real studio-pottery pedigree: a sculptural vase for a shelf, a tea bowl for daily use, or a small clay sculpture for a desk that wants something genuinely handmade.
