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Handmade Parisian ceramics with a milky glaze, made the slow way in the last atelier of its kind.
Astier de Villatte's tableware is made in Paris, in a workshop that still fires its pieces the way it did when the atelier opened in 1996. The signature is the milky white glaze over black terracotta, each piece slightly irregular, each one signed.
On a candlelit table the glaze does something electric light cannot fake: it holds the flame. Plates, cups, and serving pieces mix across collections without ever clashing, which is why so many dining rooms plate on it.
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