Akira Hojo

Japanese tea sourcer and curator specializing in Yunnan white teas from natural and wild gardens. The Leaves are sourced from centuries-old Camellia sinensis and Camellia taliensis trees in Yunnan's high-altitude regions, including the Gu Shu Yinzhen and Ancient Tree White Tea.

Atelier SOOBO

Founded by Korean ceramicists Bokyung Kim and Minsoo Lee, Atelier SOOBO creates refined everyday ceramics shaped by silence, balance, and tradition. Each piece is made by hand in their Dießen am Ammersee studio—rooted in the deep heritage of Korean pottery, yet designed for contemporary life.

Chiaki Asanuma

Chiaki bridges traditional blown-glass techniques with a refined, contemplative finishing process that includes engraving, grinding, and polishing.Her forms are often inspired by classical, turned silhouettes, but her attention lies in what happens within and through the glass. She works both from her studio in Munich and in collaboration with historic glass workshops in the Bavarian Forest and Nuremberg, continuing to explore the full material language of glass—from its molten beginnings to its cooled, crystalline stillness.

David Louveau

Trained in Japan and rooted in a lifelong pursuit of purity in form, David Louveau’s porcelain reflects a meditative journey back to essence. His work blends rigorous technique with poetic restraint—each piece a quiet study in light, texture, and simplicity

Fritz Baumann

Trained as a carpenter, Fritz Baumann turns freshly cut oak into sculptural vessels that shift as they dry—developing gentle warps, cracks, and asymmetries. His work embraces natural change and highlights the character of the wood through visible tool marks, butterfly joints, and minimal surface treatments.This series of turned bowls and vessels is a celebration of wood as a living material.

Hong Jianpeng

Hong's work exudes a distinct perspective on beauty, which sets it apart from many generic Dehua finds.

Kazuya Ishida

Ishida-san draws inspiration from nature, reflecting marine and geological forms in his "Rahou" (螺法) spiral style. He utilizes local Bizen clay and unglazed wood-firing techniques to achieve natural ash effects, imparting unique textures and colors to his pieces.

Lena Harms

Lena Harms creates sculptural vessels and cups that blur the line between function and visual art. Using only coil and slab techniques, her surfaces are built layer by layer—painted with clay slips and inlays rather than glaze—celebrating the earthiness and raw beauty of clay itself.

Marcel Karcher

A self-taught ceramicist deeply shaped by East Asian aesthetics and tea culture, Marcel Karcher creates vessels that are contemplative, balanced, and quietly expressive.

Maria Cepissakova

Maria Cepissakova explores the thresholds of ceramic tradition—bringing together clay, porcelain, and glass in works that shift between function, sculpture, and wall-based form. Her pieces challenge the limits of material and context, while remaining grounded in a deep respect for craft.

Marukyu Koyamaen

Marukyu Koyamaen is one of the most esteemed and historic tea producers in Uji, Kyoto—Japan’s heartland of high-quality matcha. All our Matcha blends by Marukyu Koyamaen (Soju, Meiju, Oju) are specifically blended for the European Union and hence are especially low in pesticide residues.

Masahiro Sakakura

Masahiro Sakakura specializes in Hagi ware, a traditional pottery style from Yamaguchi Prefecture. He emphasizes the intrinsic qualities of local clay, personally excavating and refining it to highlight its unique characteristics. His creations are deeply influenced by the aesthetics of the tea ceremony, focusing on tea pottery.

Perrine Pottiez

Perrine Pottiez creates poetic, elemental ceramics from wild clays collected by hand. Working from her home in Toulouse, she pinches, throws, brushes, and fires each piece with quiet precision—allowing the process, the earth, and the flame to leave their mark.

Single-Cultivar Matcha from Nishio

Excellently made Matcha from several unique cultivars including some hand-picked qualities for an attractive price. Also the machine-harvested Okumidori Matcha offers an affordable every-day quality.

Su Mingzhi

Su Mingzhi 蘇铭智 is a young but very talented teapot maker from Chaozhou. He is specialised in ultra-thin Egg-Yolk-Clay teapots and classical shapes. I fell in love with his work on my last trip in Chaozhou and am very happy to offer a small selection of his models here.

Takuya Kanamoto

Takuya Kanamoto’s ceramics embody the life force of clay in motion. Working in the rich Oribe tradition, his pieces ripple with mossy greens, textured folds, and elemental energy. Each work is a quiet force—cut, glazed, and fired in Nara, Japan.

Vlastimil Hanuš

Vlasta is a sculptor, woodworker, and instrument maker whose practice is rooted in reverence for material. Working mostly from the forests of Southern Bohemia, he transforms locally sourced wood into elegant, functional tea tools—trays, scoops, and carved vessels that honor both the tree and the tea.

Xuefen Zhang

Zhang Xuefen, a master craftswoman in the Chaozhou Arts and Crafts Association, has been hand-throwing teapots for over 30 years. Her work balances ultra-precise lid fit and form with refined aesthetics, particularly in her signature “thousand lines” 千線 series. As one of the few established female teapot artists in Chaozhou, her pieces are a quiet celebration of craftsmanship and resilience.

YiZhi

Hailing from Jingdezhen, a renowned hub of the Chinese arts and crafts scene, YiZhi's artistry takes a fascinating twist as he draws strong inspiration from Japanese aesthetics. To me, his non-porcelain creations represent a harmonious blend of two distinct tea cultures that I have personally cherished and admired for many years.

Yufeng Wang

Wang Yufeng founded Nánjiāo Studio in 2011 to explore ceramics that reflect nature’s healing power. With over a decade of dedication to soda firing, his works radiate rustic elegance—fine porcelain forms painted by fire and earth. Each piece is a quiet conversation between artist, kiln, and nature.