In 2013, The Factory Café opens, becoming a gathering place for guests, community members, staff, workshop participants, and visitors to dine—and create. Four-by-six-inch recycled cards and sharp pencils are placed on each table so that guests can draw and write. The collection of thoughtful notes and unique sketches that are regularly left behind are photographed for what becomes the “Left on the Café Table” series. In 2020, The Factory Café closes permanently for lunch service and the Friends of the Café dinners are suspended due to the risks of COVID-19. We are eternally grateful to our guests, chefs, and team...
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After seven years of collaborating on a dinnerware collection, Alabama Chanin and Heath Ceramics announce a jewelry line, producing hand-etched necklaces in the Alabama Chanin-Heath Ceramics collaborative style. The necklaces are cut in Heath’s San Francisco tile factory then completed in their Sausalito factory, where the jewelry team drills the holes in the bars, glazes, etches, fires, and assembles the necklaces. The bars are fired in the kiln with larger ceramics, filling in small areas of the kiln that would otherwise be empty, and thus making the production process more efficient. The highly skilled etching technique used in Alabama Chanin’s line of dinnerware is also applied to the necklaces.
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