The Rutunda is a handleless cup is hand thrown on a wheel in a timeless design that feels great to hold in your hand. The cup is then carefully hand-dipped into beautiful glaze to leave space for the sculpted stoneware base to be seen and felt. Ideal for tea, hot drinks and mindfulness.
We partner with Kinta an authentic, refined and timeless interior homeware producer that handmade accessories in a responsible and sustainable way. Their collab with the diligent tableware studio Tung & Viet in Vietnam (who have strict fairtrade principles through and through and excellent working conditions) yield beautiful pieces. They design these stylish cups together and plates too which are all hand thrown at their workshop located in the pottery village of Bàt Tráng outside Hanoi. Tung & Viet use local resources and mix the non-toxic food-safe colour glazes themselves. They are carefully made from stoneware clay, and are robust, microwave and dishwasher proof and come in different colourways.
Rutunda Handleless Cup
260ml - 10x8.5cm
Dishwasher + Microwave safe
Tung and Viet are the youngest generation to lead an old family pottery, which has existed for more than 8 generations, to the 21st century. They are very ambitious and work on continuing a long craft tradition combined with vision for the future. Fair trade is central to this. The company has recently been renovated; it is orderly and clean and has well-lit and well-ventilated spaces for production. Apart from the family, it is also the nearby farmers who work here when farming is less busy. Production therefore does not always go fast, especially around harvest time!
Kinta do not work with middlemen, their suppliers are producers and they see them as partners with whom they build a good and long-term relationship.. They visit their partners twice a year. Together with their partners they continuously develop new products. This is the core of their collaboration. Design is important but not at any price. Kinta highly value acting fairly, both in cooperation with producers, and their employees and in how they use the materials in manufacture. Kinta products are made by people, not by machines, therefore they aim for good working conditions, fair payment and good housing for all employees.