Handcrafted ceramic brand Clayhaus Modern Tile has introduced a new collection that the company says represents a departure of sorts from its typical products: The collection expands beyond the bright bold colors and unique shapes that have defined the maker’s signature modern tile designs.
The latest introduction, the Caldera Collection, from the Portland, Ore.-based brand comprises an assortment of shapes combined with 24 matte glazes inspired by the desert landscapes of central and eastern Oregon.
Unlike many of Clayhaus’ other collections, for which the tile maker collaborated with various outside designers, the Caldera Collection is the brainchild of Clayhaus co-founder Jason Coleman.
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“I’ve been enchanted by the desert since I was a teenager, when my family moved to Nevada, especially its subtle beauty, which sometimes seems lost behind what many see as a harsh landscape,” Coleman says. “I started experimenting with desert-like textures and colors, and it wasn’t long before I knew we had something special and personal.”
Caldera embraces the high desert’s more organic subtle hues and textures. The soft, earthy tones that make up the color palette derive from central Oregon’s Painted Hills in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The collection offers “a tactile presence that invites the hand, a subtle texture that feels grounded and real in an age of polished perfection,” the company says in its release announcing the line. “It offers a surface meant to be experienced, not just seen — an authentic material connection to the land that inspired it.”
Crafted from the company’s newly developed specialty red stoneware clay body, each hue is available in both flat and speckled finishes. Together, the two finishes allow for thoughtful interplay between movement and stillness, giving designers the flexibility and freedom to shape spaces that feel both dynamic and grounded, the company says. The collection’s shapes were chosen for their geometric simplicity, allowing the unique glazes to take center stage.
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