The Everyday 5-Piece Place Setting

The plates are the same; it’s the bowls that make the difference. The Everyday Place Setting comes with our wide, shallow Breakfast and Everyday Bowls, well suited for yogurt and granola, grain bowls, pasta, and meals with plenty of room to spread out. The Potter’s Place Setting swaps those bowls for the deeper Ice Cream and Soup Bowls, a better fit for cereal, oatmeal, soup and anything brothy or spoonable.

Certainly not. Keeping everything in one glaze makes for a handsome, orderly table, while mixing colors gives you a little more freedom to play. Since East Fork’s pieces are designed to live together, you can add a new glaze when one catches your eye without having to start your dinnerware collection all over again.

All East Fork pottery is made at our factory in Asheville, North Carolina, using a blend of stoneware clays and minerals sourced from the American Southeast. Our team combines skilled handwork with specialized pottery equipment to shape, finish, and glaze each piece. We then fire our pottery in gas kilns using a reduction process that brings out signature iron speckles and natural glaze variations.

We make our pottery with a blend of stoneware clays and minerals that we develop in-house and iterate on nonstop. We source our materials from the American Southeast which helps minimize our carbon footprint and keeps our products rooted in the land we call our home.

East Fork’s clay is rich in iron, as it has been since the beginning, and through a process of limiting the oxygen in the kiln during part of the firing, iron molecules are drawn to the surface of the clay, resulting in our signature iron spots, also lovingly referred to as speckling.

East Fork’s core colors make up our year-round palette. Seasonal colors come and go with the seasons, while limited colors are produced in smaller one-time runs or for special releases. Start with core colors to build your collection over time, or mix in seasonal and limited colors as they catch your eye.

We’ve brought retired colors back before, but a past return doesn’t guarantee a future one. If you have a favorite, keep an eye out for our Seconds Sales where hard-to-find colors may surface, and follow our email announcements and Instagram for re-releases.

If you know you’ll use the whole place setting, buying the set is a tidy way to cover your bases and saves 10% compared with purchasing pieces individually. If there’s one plate you use twice as often as everything else, you can always add a few extras later.