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The Reading Room mug
The Reading Room mug
The Reading Room mug
Cozy vibes: There is a particular feeling that comes with holding this mug. Something settles. The painted garden wall with its climbing vines, the slate blue room visible through the gold-framed window, the bookshelf packed with colorful spines, the small white cat asleep at the bottom of it all. Each detail was placed there by hand, considered and painted one careful stroke at a time, and together they create something that feels less like a mug and more like a reminder. That the slow things are worth protecting. Fill the mug and sit with it for longer than you planned, turn it slowly in your hands, you'll find something new each time.
A wide, barrel-shaped handleless mug that sits low and full in your hands, its rounded form hand-shaped and slightly uneven in the way that tells you immediately it was made by a person, not a machine. The exterior is painted like a scene you would want to step inside. On one side, a cream brick wall climbs upward, flowering vines spilling across the surface in green and red and yellow, loose and alive. On the other, a deep slate blue interior comes into view through a gold-framed window, curtains with soft polka dots hanging above, a colorful bookshelf packed with hand-painted spines visible through the panes, and tucked at the bottom, a small white cat, eyes closed, perfectly asleep. The whole scene wraps around the mug so that turning it in your hands feels like moving through a world. Handleless and wide-mouthed, it is the kind of vessel that asks to be held with both hands. Designed to hold ~400 ml (13.5 oz) comfortably.
Each of our handmade ceramics are made by independent artists in small batches.
Handmade ceramics carry the marks of their making. Variations in color, texture, and form reflect the artist’s process. Each piece is shaped by hand, just once, and in its own way, making it uniquely yours.
About the artist: This piece was made by Esra from her home studio in Adana, a sunny city on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Drawn to archaeology from an early age, she started by making home décor objects inspired by artifacts from the ancient world. Objects that had survived centuries because they meant something to the people who made and used them. And she found herself wondering what that really meant. What makes something worth keeping? Over time, she found her answer in the everyday. She began making pieces designed to be held, used, and loved in the small rituals of daily life.
But what truly shapes Esra's work is storytelling. Trained in literature, she approaches each design the way a writer approaches a scene, with intention, with character, with a world the viewer can step into. The black cat watching sheep graze through a window. The cozy library glimpsed from a garden wall. The cottage at golden hour with birds lifting off into a pink sky.
Esra's deepest motivation is that objects can connect us. That something made in one place, by one set of hands, can become part of someone else’s daily ritual. Each piece extends that thread, linking lives and stories across distance.