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

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

Avocado stone holder

  • white

On request

This piece is one of a kind.

What you see in the photo is what you'll receive. If you'd like another, it can be remade to order.

On request

The price is worked out together with the piece

This piece is made to measure, and until the measurements are known there is no price. Write down what you need here: the request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, and we pass it on to Kerstin Simply Creative.

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

The piece

A ceramic piece shaped like a cat or an avocado that sits on any glass jar filled with water and holds the avocado stone in just the right position to grow plenty of roots.

Give it a try.

How it's made

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

  1. Throws on the wheelThe form comes from the wheel she learned in Montelupo: from there on the piece is hers, from raw clay to firing.
  2. Decorates like a painterMaiolica was her first language and it shows: full colours, living surfaces, the palette borrowed from the hills outside the window.
  3. Knots the macraméThe hanging vases travel with the weave that holds them, and she makes the macramé herself, knot by knot, to the size of the piece.
  4. Gives the chimes a voiceThe wind chimes are a family affair: the sounding inserts come from her husband's hands. Every chime comes out with a voice of its own.
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.

  • Furnishing accessory

On request

Want it different?

Another colour, another size, a piece designed just for you: Tuscany Market Hub handles the request. Write to us, we'll put it into production and come back to you with timings and a price.

Ask for a made-to-order piece

The request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, who pass it on to Kerstin Simply Creative.
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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