Fajans Plate L

The designs on the two plate sizes are inspired by light reflected in raindrops and puddles around town.

Green and yellow dots evoke rhythmic raindrops. It has room for salad for four or five people, while its vivid colors keep the table lively as the food is served.
Place one in the center of the table to bring color and a stylish atmosphere to the setting.
POTPURRI's Fajans series combines delicate, Nordic vintage-inspired designs with durability.

Suitable for everyday use with metal cutlery and in the dishwasher.

POTPURRI’s Fajans began when designer Hiroyuki Okami encountered the faience work of Stig Lindberg.

The word faience may be unfamiliar to many people in Japan.
Fajans is a European ceramic tradition of white, tin-glazed earthenware made with pale-yellow clay. It is also known as faience.

During the twentieth century, when Stig Lindberg was active, faience was declining as inexpensive, mass-produced ceramics grew popular. Lindberg gave the understated, unfashionable ware a new life with vivid colours and bold forms. The work continues to attract devoted admirers today.

Since then, the word Fajans has often brought Lindberg’s vividly coloured faience to mind.

Okami first encountered Lindberg’s Fajans as a student. Struck by its freedom and bold design, he travelled to Sweden to explore his own approach to faience. After returning to Japan, he continued his research while working for a ceramics manufacturer. In 2012, he founded POTPURRI and finally introduced his own Fajans.

POTPURRI’s Fajans carries forward Lindberg’s spirit of renewal. It preserves the freedom of the designs while adding the strength and practicality needed for modern life.
Okami’s years of research into clays, pigments, firing temperatures and a new transfer technique led to a new Fajans that withstands metal cutlery and dishwashers and fits into everyday life.

POTPURRI continues to research faience. The collection will keep taking new forms as the makers seek the best tableware for each era.

The traditional faience process, used for over 100 years, produces fragile pieces. Hand-painted decoration can also make them costly and less consistent in quality.
POTPURRI has developed its Fajans collection with various improvements to address these issues and suit modern life.

Microwave and dishwasher safe
For POTPURRI’s Fajans collection, the makers developed clay and glaze for high-temperature firing so the pieces could be used in the microwave and dishwasher.

Resists scratching from cutlery
With traditional overglaze decoration, years of use with metal cutlery can wear away a pattern. For Fajans, POTPURRI developed a method of embedding the pigments beneath the glaze to protect the design.

An accessible price
POTPURRI’s Fajans uses a transfer technique in which printed transfers are applied to the ceramic and fired. Reducing the amount of handwork helps maintain consistent quality and accessible prices. Particular care goes into the print quality so it retains the character of the original hand-drawn artwork.

Research and development continue, including hand-painted faience created for different seasons each year.

From the outset, Fajans was conceived as an ongoing creative project. POTPURRI usually completes its research when a collection is released. Research into Fajans continues.

Lindberg’s hand-painted faience gives each piece its own expression, even within the same pattern. POTPURRI continues to research how to combine that individual character with production methods that make Fajans more affordable.

Limited-edition, hand-painted Fajans pieces are one part of this ongoing work.
Each design reflects the feeling of the moment and is a one-off, making your encounter with that piece unique.