Work from the kiln

Bowls, cylinders, slabs, sea-glass

Four families of objects. Nothing is mass-cast in a tourist mould. Sizes below are the ranges we regularly fire; outside them, we write a kiln schedule together.

Catalog

What we will make again

Stock on the shelf changes with each anneal. Use this page to choose a family of form, then commission colour, scale, and hanging hardware. We do not keep a souvenir rack of identical mini-vases.

Hot shop

Bowls

Open forms gathered on the pipe, blocked, and spun. The foot is a second gather, not a glued disc. Lips are fire-polished, then cold-worked if they will sit in a stack on a dining table. Colour sits in the gather: a wrap of seaglass cullet, a trail of molten orange at the rim, or a clear body that only shows the harbour in thickness.

Typical diameters 22–48 cm. Depth 8–16 cm. Weight is honest — these are not hotel buffet pieces. A set of six matching bowls is a kiln-and-bench conversation, not a catalogue SKU.

22–48 cm Second-gather foot Table weight

Tall glass cylinder with a thick wall and a ground rim

Hot shop

Cylinders

Tall vessels for a single stem, a handful of harbour grasses, or nothing at all. The wall is kept thick enough to read as architecture on a sideboard. Rims are ground flat in the cold shop so a lid or a stone disc can sit true.

Heights 28–70 cm. We will not blow a meter-high cylinder for a cruise-ship lobby on two days’ notice; the anneal alone refuses that timeline.

28–70 cm Ground rim Thick wall

Fused sea-glass panel with greens and foam whites

Series

Sea-glass series

Cullet collected from the Acre waterfront and from our own shop scrap, washed, sorted by colour family, and fused. The series includes low dishes, small closed forms, and tiles meant to be set into a wall, not worn as jewellery. Each firing keeps a log of which harbour batch went in — fishing-float blues behave unlike soda-bottle greens.

These are not “upcycled gifts.” They are new objects that refuse to pretend the glass was born in a factory catalogue.

Harbour cullet Fused Batch log

Kiln-formed

Wall slabs

Architectural panels fused and slumped in the kiln, then edged and sometimes laminated to a backing for hanging. Colour is laid as a charge: powder, frit, and sheet stacked so that the harbour greys sit against a molten slash — the same diagonal the shop uses on this site because that is how heat actually travels across a slab.

Typical sizes 40 × 60 cm up to 90 × 140 cm. Anything larger is a structural conversation: hanging points, wall type, and a 90-hour anneal that will not be shortened because a photographer is arriving. We supply French cleats or standoffs; we do not supply a gallery hanging service for other artists’ work.

40×60 to 90×140 cm 90-hour anneal Cleats / standoffs

Pricing is quoted per commission after we know size, colour, and whether the piece must travel. Email studio@acrekiln.pro or use the commission form. We do not quote from a photograph of someone else’s Murano vase.