The white cat-face stone holder resting on a glass jar, with the sprouted stone at the centre.
Portanocciolo

It holds the pit in the water at the right height, and the roots start to grow.

Avocado pit remover

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Modeled, painted and glazed by hand by Kerstin Rauch, in Reggello.

The piece

A cat or avocado-shaped ceramic piece that rests on any water-filled glass jar and holds the avocado pit in the right position for rooting.

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How it's made

A one-person workshop, where every piece goes through all the stages without ever changing hands.

  1. She throws on the wheelThe form comes from the wheel she learned at Montelupo: it is the gesture that turned a decorator into a complete ceramist, in command of the piece from the raw clay onwards.
  2. She decorates like a painterMaiolica was her first language and it shows: full colors, living surfaces, the palette borrowed from the hills outside the window.
  3. She knots the macraméThe hanging vases travel with the weave that holds them, and the macramé is not bought by the meter: she makes it herself, knot by knot, to the measure of the piece.
  4. She gives the little bells a voiceThe wind chimes are a family affair: the sounding inserts come from her husband's hands. Every bell comes out with its own voice, not with a standard sound.
Materials
Hand-molded, painted, and glazed ceramic

How to look after it

A few things, but they have to be respected: it is fired glaze, not plastic.

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On request

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Five green avocado-shaped stone holders, with the yellow hole at the centre, seen from above.
A sprouted stone inside the green stone holder on the jar, with two other pieces resting beside it.
The cat-face stone holder held in the hand in front of the jar of water.
The workshop

Kerstin Rauch

Kerstin Rauch works clay in a small studio on the hills of Reggello, in the province of Firenze, where the window looks out over the olive groves. The colors and textures of that landscape are the matrix of what comes out of the kiln: she says so herself, and you can see it.

She has always liked everything that hangs — plants, bells, suspended objects — and half the production came from there: the wind chimes, the plant hangers, the jellyfish that hold the tillandsias, the bird feeder. The other half sits flat: hand-painted tiles, plates, spoons, incense holders, cat-shaped salt cellars.

In her workshop, she says, “everything turns: the wheel, the ideas, and often me as well”.

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Hand-painted ceramics · a small studio on the hills of Reggello · every piece is different from the next

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