2025
Born from the earth of Michoacán.
Made entirely by hand.
The Leonora Collection was conceived in New York and brought to life between 2024 and 2025 in San José de Gracia — a small indigenous community in the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico by Maestro Artesano Pedro Hernández, his wife Isabel, and their family.
It begins with the earth itself.
Pedro and his family walk one kilometer from his home to extract two distinct types of clay, mixing them together for the strength only their union can give.
From there, everything is hands.
Pedro and his wife Isabel, together with their family, shape each piece in two-part molds, joining and sealing them entirely by hand.
What the hand makes, it makes only once.
Then comes the surface, or what Pedro calls the cáscara, the skin. It is built through pastillaje: each decorative element pressed and placed by hand, one piece at a time. A coat of tierra blanca prepares each piece for two firings.
The collection takes its name from Leonora Carrington — painter, surrealist, and one of the great binational souls of the twentieth century. Like her, these pieces exist between two worlds: rooted in Mexican earth and tradition, and reimagined by a contemporary vision born in New York.
Each piece singular.
No two will ever be the same.