Les Guimards Desk Set: Charcoal Weekly & Undated Layflat sewn binding

Layflat sewn binding

it transforms the everyday pour into quiet ceremony

with joinery left visible because that's the honest way to build it

We have retained the best of Old World European craftsmanship and added our own specially designed handles

Made in Japan by Takata Lemnos

Les Guimards Desk Set: Charcoal Weekly & Undated Layflat sewn bindingA pen cup and catchall in a deep charcoal glaze, dipped to a clean, level line above a band of bare stoneware. The color reads nearly black, warmed from beneath by the greige clay it's poured over slate, cast iron, the dark end of natural modernism. We commissioned this pen cup and catchall from Nathalie and Christophe Hurtault, made for Wms&Co. in France. They throw each piece on the wheel at their workshop in Saint Amand en Puisaye, in Burgundy,