Sizes are our guess for this screen. To check, lay a bank card on the rule at 0 and drag the orange tab to its end.

A folded linen napkin, a white side plate, a bowl glazed tangerine inside and a graphite cup, stacked one in another on a pale linen tablecloth, seen from above.

Everything here is the size it is.

Tableware, linen, lamps and a few good objects for the home, in a small shop in Hyde Park. Everything on this page is at its real size, near enough, so you know how big a bowl is before you come in.Tableware, linen and lamps in Hyde Park, each on this page at its real size, near enough.

Set a place: lift the pieces off the pile.

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Linen napkin: 450 square, folded in three to 150
Side plate: 190 across, 22 tall
Small bowl: 115 across, 50 tall, tangerine inside
Cup: 80 across, 80 tall, 108 over the handle

The smallest thing in the shop

We keep tableware, linen, lamps and a few good objects, most of it made in small workshops here and overseas. We’d rather you knew how big a thing is than how nice the photograph is, so everything on this page is at its real size, near enough. Come in and pick it up.

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Salt spoon, olive wood, 62 mm. Oil it when it looks dry. This one fits on your phone.

Everything we keep, drawn as wide as it is

At real size, near enough. Each line is as long as the thing is wide. Hover or tab to a name for a note.

Egg cup48White glaze, a foot you can hold, 52 tall.
Salt spoon62Olive wood. Oil it when it looks dry.
Candle holder72White glaze, takes a 22 mm candle. Wipe the wax off warm.
Cup108Graphite glaze, 80 across the rim and 108 over the handle. Holds 220 ml, fine in the dishwasher.
Small bowl115Tangerine glaze inside, white outside, 50 deep, for rice, fruit or a pudding.
Teaspoon128Brushed steel, weighted at the end so it sits still on a saucer.
Pouring jug1301 litre, tangerine glaze, measured spout to handle.
Bowl150White glaze, 64 deep, the one we use most.
Side plate190White glaze, the foot left bare.
Dinner plate270Stoneware, an orange line brushed around the rim.
Lamp shade275Linen drum, 215 tall, on a turned ceramic base.
Oval platter360White glaze, 250 across the short way. Big enough for a whole fish.
Linen napkin450Washed, not pressed. 225 folded in quarters.
Tablecloth1600, well past the edge of your screen.Linen, 1600 by 2600, for a table of about 900 by 1900.

Widths are the widest point, handles included.

Large jug

Taller than your screen.

Our large jug, 2 litres. Thrown on a wheel in a small workshop, one at a time, so no two are quite the same height. This one is 260 mm to the lip and about 165 mm across the belly. The orange glaze stops short of the foot, and the raw clay there is left bare so it won’t scratch the table.

Fill it to the shoulder, not the brim, and it pours cleanly. Dishwasher is fine; a bottle brush for the spout.

260 tall · Ø 165 · handle 34 wide

260 Ø 165

Linen, washed and not pressed

A napkin comes folded in four, 225 mm a side. Opened out it’s 450 across, which is more than most screens are wide, so here it runs off the page the way it runs off the edge of a table.

Wash it warm with the other light things. Take it out while it’s still damp and pull it straight by the hems. Dry it on the line or over a chair. We don’t iron ours: it softens with every wash, and the creases are part of it.

Napkin 450 × 450, folded to 225. Tablecloth 1600 × 2600, for a table of about 900 × 1900.

Dinner plate

Stoneware, thrown and trimmed by hand, with a fine orange line brushed around the rim and the foot left bare. 270 mm across and 26 mm tall, about 640 g. The well is wide and shallow, so it holds a meal without a lip to push against.

Run the pointer over the plate, or tab to it and use the arrow keys: the orange line measures it straight across, wherever you are.

Each rim is a little different; that’s the brush, not a fault. Dishwasher is fine. The bare foot can mark a timber table if it’s dragged, so lift it.

Ø 270 the well, about Ø 200

Most of what we sell is judged in the hand.

Two hands in grey sleeves holding a graphite cup against orange.

Ø 80 80

A handbreadth is the width of a hand laid flat.

It’s a shopkeeper’s measure from before rulers: a cup was a handbreadth tall and a cloth was so many hands wide. We still pick everything up before it comes in.

Lay four fingers flat on the screen and drag the end of the line to your little finger.

100 mm, the old measure.

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An unlit white ceramic lamp with a linen shade on a pale ash sideboard.

Ø 275 215

This part of the page is as tall as the lamp.

Table lamp, 480 mm to the top of the shade. A turned ceramic base in a white glaze, a linen drum shade 275 across and 215 tall. The switch is on the cord, where your hand falls.

On a sideboard about 800 mm high, the shade sits just under eye level for someone sitting down. We sell it without a globe; a warm one suits the linen.

Before anything gets a shelf

Our large bowl, cut in half, at its real size near enough.

Ø 150

The lip, 4 mm: thin enough to sip soup from, thick enough to keep.
The wall: we lift everything, and if it’s heavy for its size it doesn’t come in.
The foot ring, 8 mm: turned over, the foot tells you how it was made.

We use a new piece at home for a month before it gets a shelf. It goes through the dishwasher, the oven if it says it can, and the drawer with the others. The ones that come back without a chip or a crazed glaze are the ones we order.

Bring your measurements

We’re in Hyde Park. Open Tuesday to Saturday, ten till five, and Sunday mornings. Bring the measurements of the shelf or the table; there’s a tape at the counter.

Our place

At a quarter of real size.

The napkin, side plate, small bowl and cup as they came off the shelf, seen from above.

Napkin 450 × 450, folded to 150
Side plate Ø 190 × 22
Small bowl Ø 115 × 50
Cup Ø 80 × 80

Sizes on this page are as close as your screen allows.

Handbreadth, Hyde Park