Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree vintage Mexican serape saltillo like clay marbles and bone

like clay marbles and bone domino

There is one round hole in the lid and two in the bottom (only one that goes all the way through the wood and smaller than a peppercorn

a tapered base with hole at the center

I’m still completely taken with them

Andersen Design Studio Mid-Century Stoneware Vase with Tree vintage Mexican serape saltillo like clay marbles and boneI found this c. 1960s Andersen Design vase not far from where it was made, in East Boothbay, Maine. It's a quintessential example of the work of Weston (1922 2015) and Brenda Andersen, who founded the studio in 1952. To me it feels one part brutalist, one part organic modern, and one part pure Maine! The body, with a bit of a grainy texture, is kind of a stony gray bisque, and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown. There were a few