hanlymade

A one-person studio — Los Angeles

Made slowly, by two hands.

Stoneware pinched open by thumb, candles poured into that same clay, flowers cut in white and green, and a cast of watercolour faces. Small numbers. No two the same.

hanly made

hand made

Hanly is a name. Say it quickly and you've already said handmade. Nobody planned that — it just turned out that the person's name and the way the work gets done are the same sound.

The Tonguester seen from above, showing the uneven pinched rim.

Ceramics

The Tonguester, and whoever comes next.

Pinched open by thumb, never thrown. The rim waves because a hand-pulled rim always waves. The legs are rolled one at a time, so they never quite match — that's the part people reach out and touch first.

Most of the surface stays bare so the clay reads as skin. Glaze goes on one feature only.

Made
Pinch-built stoneware, clay body TK
Run
One of one. When it's gone, it's gone.
Price
$ TK
Ask what's on the shelf
A reclining raw clay figure holding an air plant, beside a small three-legged dish.

Air plant holder

A figure lying back with a tillandsia held to the chest. Comes with the plant.

$70

Four small bud vases holding dried grasses.

Little Whisker Vase

Bud vases the size of a thumb. Dried stems included.

$18 each

A flat clay herb stripper with five graduated holes.

Herb stripper

Five holes, largest to smallest. Pull the stem through, keep the leaves.

$ TK

Seated figure — a full turn

Candles

Burn it all the way down. Keep the cup.

The same clay, pinched into a small cheeky seat and poured with wax. Iron in the body freckles the surface in the kiln, so the speckling is different on every one.

When the wax is finished, wash it out. It was always a cup.

Vessel
Hand-pinched speckled stoneware, left bare outside
Wax
wax TK · scent TK
Burn
hours TK — trim the wick to a quarter inch
Price
$ TK
Take one home
A loose white and green arrangement of roses, chrysanthemum and seeded eucalyptus in a glass vase.

Flowers

White and green, every single week.

Loose and garden-style, never more than two colours: roses, chrysanthemum, green trick dianthus, hypericum, seeded eucalyptus. Bought at market the morning they're delivered.

Standing weekly orders go to front desks, lobbies and production offices around LA. Swapped out, taken away, paused any week you're dark.

Delivered
days TK · zones TK
Lasts
Seven to ten days, vase included
Weekly
$ TK · one-off from $ TK
Start a standing order

Paper & vinyl

The same hand, on a flatter surface.

Before the clay there were pens. Watercolour faces, drippy lettering, one-off paintings — drawn, scanned, printed, cut. Most of them end up on somebody's water bottle by the end of the week.

Seven watercolour face stickers gathered together.

The whole cast

Seven faces, one hand.

From $2

Pride Guy watercolour sticker with a rainbow across the forehead.

Pride Guy

Original watercolour.

$2.50

Yolk watercolour sticker.

Yolk

Hand drawn, hand painted.

$3

Retro sticker reading Don't Touch My Stuff.

Don't Touch My Stuff

Seventies lettering, modern grievance.

$2

Drippy black lettering sticker reading Still Vegan.

Still Vegan

Yes, still.

$2

A small ink and watercolour painting of a figure crouched in a corner.

Created right on into a corner

One of a kind, ink and watercolour on paper.

$10

Nothing here is needed. That was never the point.

A cup you didn't need, a candle you'll burn anyway, flowers that die on purpose. What they have in common is that someone sat down and made them slowly, and you can tell by looking.

Everything is made in very small numbers by name TK in studio / city TK. Commissions open when there's room.

Tell me what you want and where it's going.

One line is plenty. You'll hear back the same day, from a person.