Partnership info
Overview
- Type
- Product Collaboration
- Year
- 2026
Treillage began with a study of latticework and trellis structures — which work as both ornament and architecture in formal gardens, historic conservatories, and classical facades. What drew Wearstler in was the rhythm: repetition that comes alive as the scale shifts, and a fine, delicate grid that suggests depth on a flat surface. That interplay of proportion became the whole foundation of the collection.
Creative Process
Five formats make up the system, each with its own cadence, composed the way Wearstler composes a room, one pattern set against another so the play between scales becomes the subject. The palette stays rooted in natural clay: weathered, grounded tones pulled from stone, earth, and foliage, with enough movement in the glaze to keep every shade alive. Every tile is still handmade in Portland, so the precision the pattern depends on arrives with the variation only a hand can give, the balance of rigor and imperfection Wearstler is always after.
What excites me about handmade production is that it introduces humanity into something highly structured. You get the rigor of geometry, but also the subtle variation and warmth that only comes from the hand. That tension between precision and imperfection is where so much beauty lives.