Farm Spirit, voted Travel + Leisure's best farm to table restaurant in Oregon, wanted tableware that was as lovingly made as its food. Chef Aaron Adams worked with Steve to bring the dishes he saw in his mind's eye to life. 

Chefs Ryan Fox and Ali Matteis, of Nomad.PDX, seek to take guests on a "journey from the earth to the dinner plate." Stoneware plates in an earthy array of forms and colors ground the journey in that very ethos.  

From bowls to plates to vases, sketching forms and charting dimensions is an integral part of the process.

Kiriko, a Portland-based company with a focus on Japanese textiles and handmade ceramics, offers Kelly Pottery coffee pitchers and pourovers in traditional indigo and shabori blue.

Kiriko, a Portland-based company with a focus on Japanese textiles and handmade ceramics, offers Kelly Pottery yunomis--a traditional Japanese green tea cup. 

Kiriko, a Portland-based company with a focus on Japanese textiles and handmade ceramics, offers Kelly Pottery bud vases, perfect for ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arranging. 

Couples work with Steve to design prototypes and create an online registry so guests can order pieces of the full set, which arrives on their wedding day.

Dinner sets in production--thrown on the wheel and ready to be bisqued, glazed, and re-fired.

Several Kelly Pottery pieces, including these stoneware yunomi vessels, toured the country with Dwell Magazine's Monogram Modern Home tour, whose purpose was to show the luxurious side of tiny-house living. 

Kelly Pottery's work can be found in small shops from coast to coast.