Our Artisans

Manufacture de Digoin

The factory des Grès et Poteries de Digoin was at the beginning a hand-crafted and familial business found in 1875, along the central canal in Burgundy.

Around 1900, the area of Digoin and Paray-le-Monial, known as the ‘Ceramic Valley’ – was home to about forty factories, each one had specific skills (making roof tiles, bricks, decorative tiles, etc.).

Since 1875, craftspeople from Manufacture de Digoin have been shaping garden potteries made of stoneware. Their ambition is to perpetuate a legendary know-how. Sleeping beauty for many years, the Manufacture came back to life in 2014, when Corinne Jourdain gathered investors to save the company.

Her ambition was to perpetuate a historical expertise and to bring back to former glory those meaningful culinary objects.

Grain Wood Studio

Generosity & authenticity best describe the work of Grain Wood Studio.offers custom furniture for home and office and makes those boards exclusively for Maison May. Their studio is based in Hudson, NY.

Charvet

The Company TRP CHARVET has been based in Armentières for more than one century.
In Armentières, City of Northern France known since the Middle Ages as the “city of canvas”, was produced the most beautiful sheets. At that time, TRP Charvet was specialized in the production of fabrics for sheets, workclothes and outdoor fabrics in cotton.

As a weaver for more than a century, TRP Charvet combines experience and innovation. This know-how has created an offer fully dedicated to the world of home and decoration. Mainly Kitchen-towels, but also aprons, table linen, bed linen and accessories (bags, pillows). 100% French products : all woven and manufactured in our workshops in France.

MQuan

Michelle Quan makes ceramic art & objects for the home and garden blending their passion for drawing, painting, text, and color.
Their work often draws inspiration from Eastern iconography, reflecting its profound beauty and meaning.

Themes of impermanence and interconnection, influenced by Buddhist teachings.

Each piece is handcrafted in New York by themselves and a dedicated team. Stoneware forms are either handbuilt or wheel-thrown, with hand-painted images fired in a gas kiln at 2350 degrees. They also incorporate hand-dyed cotton, brass, wood, and hemp rope.

They hope their work serves as both a contemplative experience and a source of inspiration, with a touch of irreverence and rock ’n’ roll.

They are based in Brooklyn, NY.

Nicholas Newcomb

Raised in upstate New York, Nicholas explored nature and pop culture before channeling his energy into the arts.

Now, he creates clay objects surrounded by creativity.
His work, exhibited in galleries and museums, has been influenced by notable artists like Toshiko Takaezu and Leslie Ferst.

Nicholas Newcomb Pottery & Sculpture offers handmade ceramics, collaborating with designers and artists.

Focusing on simple tableware and home accessories, each piece is crafted in Brooklyn, NY using traditional techniques.

Each piece is a unique handmade creation from Brooklyn, NY.

Silvia K

Located in the heart of Brighton on the south coast of the UK, Silvia established her eponymous studio shortly after graduation in 2012. Reflecting her commitment to authenticity, every aspect of production takes place in-house.


Silvia’s drawings inform the models from which she makes her moulds;  she also mixes casting slip, makes glazes, cuts leather straps - nothing is outsourced.

Silvia spent four years at the University of Brighton, graduating with an MDes in Ceramics and Visual Research in 2012.

Valerie Casado

It is in her workshop of Vaucluse, in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, that this Bordeaux woman in the heart of Provence devotes herself to the art of the table. Pure, poetic, with delicately shredded contours, her crockery appears sugar-coated, of a sacred whiteness. Flared cups, slender vases, corolla cups delicately form the earth.
A red earth that Valerie works with the fingertips, without thinking of the result. No intellectualization, only instinct guides her actions and lets her hands speak, an extension of the earth tells us the potter. The earth that she loves to feel, touch and that has always permeated her life.

Marius Fabre

For over 120 years and through four generations, our family has been trying to keep our ever threatened know-how alive : making true Marseille soap by conserving the techniques of saponification in cauldrons. Our secret is the knack passed down through generations, from father to son, then from father to daughter. Our primary concern is the high quality of our raw materials. Our soap is made using only vegetable oils, especially olive oil. No colorants or synthetic substances are added. This exceptional purity renders it beneficial for the skin and environmental-friendly. All our products follow the same line of thought. This know-how, patience and rigour are the rules which allow the Marius Fabre soap factory to produce a Marseille soap of peerless quality. Today, we are proud to carry on the tradition started here in 1900 by our great grand-father, Marius Fabre.” Marie et Julie Bousquet-Fabre