Custom inquiries open - home and restaurant
Andrew Smith surrounded by ceramic work in the Augusta Pots studio
Handmade in Phoenix

Augusta Pots

Wheel-thrown ceramics for restaurant pass-throughs, serious home tables, collectors, and rooms that need a human hand in the object.

1maker from clay body to final firing
18months of wood-fired work in the current body
20+restaurants, designers, and collaborators served
Find the form first

Shop by what you need.

Start with the object in your hand: plates for the course, bowls for the table, cups for the bar, vessels for the room, and custom work when the table needs its own language.

The maker's lifestyle

Clay, service, fire, and the hand that refuses sameness.

Every piece begins in the studio and ends in motion: lifted from a shelf, set beneath a course, passed across a table, washed, repaired, remembered, and used again.

People should not be the only personalities at your dinner table.
Ceramic studio work in progress
Andrew Smith working in the studio
For restaurants and trade

Built for the room, the food, and the dish pit.

For chefs, restaurant teams, and designers who want the dinnerware to carry the same intention as the menu, the room, and the service.

1

Define the table

Cuisine, service style, plating needs, storage, budget, and volume.

2

Prototype the set

Forms, glaze tests, size runs, and hand-feel before production.

3

Produce for service

Dish-pit-rated pieces with replenishment logic for busy kitchens.

Start a restaurant project
Tables served

Phoenix already knows the work.

Custom wares for chefs, bars, hotels, designers, and rooms where the table is part of the experience.

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Shop by release

Keep the story collections intact.

Limited runs, restaurant collaborations, and bodies of work shaped by place, firing, and the people they were made with.

Andrew Augusta Smith studio portrait
Andrew "Augusta" Smith

The engineer and the artist, both hands on the wheel.

Andrew uses production-scale ceramic knowledge and traditional functional forms to make tablewares, vessels, lighting, sculpture, and collaborative works. His practice moves between discipline and heat: measured enough for service, alive enough to feel made.

The work belongs in restaurants, homes, collections, and rooms where utility and presence need to hold the same object.

Read about the artist
PhoenixLives and works
BFACeramics, 2020
Wood / sodaAtmospheric firing
Custom inquiry

Bring the table into the studio.

Tell us what kind of table, room, menu, or object you are imagining. The more tactile the brief, the better the first conversation.

Email: info@augustapots.com
Phone: (602) 492-8171