Treillage

Overview

Type: Product Collaboration
Year: 2026

Treillage began with a study of latticework and trellis structures — the way they exist simultaneously as ornament and architecture, in formal gardens, historic conservatories, and classical facades. What drew Wearstler in was the rhythm: repetition that turns dynamic the moment scale starts to shift, a fine, delicate grid lifted just enough to suggest depth where none actually exists. That interplay of proportion became the whole foundation of the collection.

Kelly Wearstler x Ann Sacks Treillage — image 2

Creative Process

Five formats make up the system, each with its own cadence, composed the way Wearstler composes a room — one pattern set against another until the conversation between scales becomes the actual subject. The palette stays rooted in natural clay: weathered, grounded tones pulled from stone, earth, and foliage, with enough movement inside the glaze to keep any one shade from sitting still. Every tile is still handmade in Portland, which means the precision the pattern depends on comes paired with the kind of variation only a hand can produce — the exact tension between rigor and imperfection Wearstler is always chasing.

Kelly Wearstler x Ann Sacks Treillage — image 3

Kelly Wearstler x Ann Sacks Treillage — image 5

What excites me about handmade production is that it introduces humanity into something highly structured. You get the rigor of geometry, but also the subtle variation and warmth that only comes from the hand. That tension between precision and imperfection is where so much beauty lives.

Kelly Wearstler