Tomé Jug

“Contemporary craftsmanship has the potential to offer objects that tell a story, that are singular and that carry the imprint of their creator,” says Luis Fernández Codeseda. “In my designs, the artisan process intervenes like a drop of chaos; like the beauty born of imperfection.”

Tomé is his contemporary revision of the botijo, the ancestral Spanish water vessel. The design began with a memory — the precise gesture of drinking from a botijo, which the designer associated with his grandfather — and works outward from that action to the form.

It is made from terracotta, using the clay’s natural porosity to cool water through evaporation. That is not decoration: an unglazed clay vessel left in shade will hold water several degrees below ambient temperature, which is why the botijo survived for centuries in a hot country.

At Ø9 x 29 cm it holds 700 ml. Every piece is handcrafted using traditional Spanish techniques, so the entirely manual process makes each one unique.

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