Bad Dogs Studio | Chunky Plates

The differently sized plates nest nicely together. Large is a good snack or appetiser size, Medium is a good coaster size, while Small is nice for holding rings or other small knick-knacks.

•Handmade, wheel-thrown ceramic made in Portland, OR.

•Food, microwave and dishwasher safe, though handwashing is recommended for longevity. 

Rachel Hawkins and Dan Hawkins are a sister-brother duo who teamed up to form Bad Dogs LLC in 2021. At the time, we’d just shared a 26’ U-HAUL on our cross-country drive from Bath, Maine (where Dan and his wife were living) to Somerville, Massachusetts (where Rachel and her partner were living) to our shared final destination, Portland, Oregon.

With the bad dogs in tow, we applied for our first joint craft fair in the fall of 2021 while working our respective jobs as an elementary art teacher (Rachel) and an architect and carpenter (Dan). At the time, Rachel had been making wheel-thrown pottery for about seven years, and selling her work in the Boston area for about three. Dan had just begun carving spoons and spatulas from our parents’ firewood pile in Maine (and he had great tutelage from our dad, a lifelong woodworker)