About
Made to be used.
Verawares makes a small, fixed range of goods for the kitchen and the table — stoneware and porcelain, hand-blown glass, oak, stainless steel, washed linen, and honed marble. A few dozen pieces. We would rather carry a few dozen things we can describe completely than a few hundred we cannot.
The organising idea is the specification. Every product page publishes what the piece is made of, what it measures, what it weighs, how it is finished, where it was made, how to care for it, and — the part most shops leave out — what it is not suitable for.
What we will not say
We publish no customer ratings, no counts of past buyers and no quoted endorsements. This is a new shop. Any number we printed would be one we had made up, and a shop that invents its praise will invent other things too. When real customers have written about these pieces, we will publish what they wrote and say where it came from.
We do not make claims about a material that we cannot support. Unsealed marble etches. Oak needs re-oiling. Linen creases. Hand-blown glass varies between pieces. None of that is a flaw to be photographed around, and all of it is written on the relevant product page rather than discovered after delivery.
We do not retouch photographs to change a colour or a texture. What varies between pieces is stated as varying. Screens differ, so a colour on your screen may still not match exactly — that we cannot fix, only disclose.
The seven materials
We work in a narrow range because a narrow range is one we can know properly. Each of these behaves in a specific and predictable way, and each is explained in full on its own page.
- Stoneware
- High-fired in oxidation to 1260°C under a soft sage-green matte glaze, vitrified and non-porous. Holds heat far longer than porcelain; the oven-safe bakeware body takes direct oven heat as well.
- Porcelain
- Fired higher and thinner than stoneware. Lighter in the hand, whiter in tone, and translucent at the rim when held to the light.
- Glass
- Hand-blown soda-lime glass. Wall thickness varies by a fraction between pieces; small bubbles are inclusions, not flaws.
- Oak
- European white oak, finished with a food-safe hardwax oil that can be reapplied at home indefinitely.
- Stainless steel
- 18/10 stainless, forged rather than stamped where the piece takes force. It will not rust, stain or hold odour, and it is dishwasher safe for life.
- Linen
- European flax, stonewashed before cutting so the finished piece will not shrink further in normal use.
- Marble
- Honed rather than polished. Porous by nature and sealed where it meets food, so it takes a stain far less readily than raw stone.
If something goes wrong
Stoneware, glass and marble occasionally break in transit however well they are packed. Send a photograph within seven days and we replace or refund in full — you keep the broken piece, because posting it back helps nobody.
Returns are open for 45 days on unused pieces in their original packaging, refunded within five business days of reaching us.