Anniversary sale
Event DetailsWalk Through 10 Years

You're invited

Come celebrate with us

We're gathering our friends and neighbors to celebrate ten years - our biggest Seconds & Overstock Sale yet, and a party. Ten years of plates, chefs, and reclaim, all under one roof for two days.

When
Aug 15 & 16
10AM - 4PM
Where
84 Central Avenue
Tarrytown, NY
What
2nds, Overstock,
Reclaim & Throwbacks

Seconds & Overstock

The real thing - the pieces we make for your favorite restaurants, priced to move. Seconds, overstock, and a ton of firsts priced as seconds, just to clear some space.

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Our story

Ten years in.

Where did the time go?

Head down for a decade - one plate at a time. Scroll to walk through how we got here.

2015

Line Cook

10 years ago, I told my Chef I quit. I loved hospitality, I loved the people I was working with, but I needed a change. I told him that he should take a chance on me and let me make plates for his new restaurant. I had taken classes in college, but had virtually no experience making plates. I was naive and ignorant. For some reason he had faith in me.

RESTAURANT NORTH, ARMONK, NY
2016

PORT CHESTER STUDIO

I rented a few small shelves and got access to a shared kiln at The Clay Art Center in Port Chester surrounded by incredibly talented and generous artists. I taught after school programs to help pay the bills and worked as a studio assistant pugging clay, mixing glazes, and loading kilns to learn the technical side of operating a studio.

2016

1st restaurant order - North

When I opened my first kiln filled with the first round of pieces for North, shards of broken plates and bowls literally fell out of the kiln onto my feet below. Through the overwhelming shame and fear, I called Chef Eric to beg for my job back. He half chuckled and said 'Buddy, do you think I didn't expect this might happen. I'm not worried. Get back to work and you'll figure it out.'

I had no idea what I was doing.
2016

studio by day, cocktails by night

I worked in the studio by day, and made cocktails by night. The Twisted Oak became the true testing ground for my new plate designs. The opportunity to see guests' honest reactions to my work was a kind of real time product testing and feedback I could never dream of. Not to mention working directly with Chef Mike to develop and refine the designs on a daily basis.

The Twisted Oak, Tarrytown, NY
2017

Blue Hill at Stone Barns order

Chef Dan Barber caught wind of what I was doing from some of his line cooks and servers who I'd share post-shift drinks with at local dive bars. I reluctantly took a meeting with him believing I had absolutely no business talking to one of the best chefs in the world about my silly foray into plate making. Funnily enough, it was a kids project I had worked on that caught his eye. After a year of tweaking, refining, and showing up repeatedly at the back door of the restaurant with new iterations, we finally landed on something. It's a design I still make for them to this day.

Handbowls for Chef Dan Barber
2017

Local press

Things started to snowball after this and I began to get some really great local press.

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Move to Tarrytown
2018

Move to Tarrytown

Having grown out of my space in Port Chester, I took the scariest leap yet and ventured out completely on my own. I moved from a 10x10 corner, into a 7000 square foot industrial warehouse and co-founded Makers Central along with Stetson Hundgen. A wayward home for fellow restaurant refugees turned maker entrepreneurs creating bespoke handmade wares for the hospitality industry. But that's a story for another day. Say... 2028?

2019

1st kiln

After a year of shuttling fragile half finished work made and bisque fired in my new tarrytown studio, 20 miles across town back to Port Chester to fire it in their kiln, I was finally able to install my very own gas fired kiln. Everything seemed to be going right on track...

Shift from the restaurant to the home
2020

Shift from the restaurant to the home

Covid shut everything down - but it launched something, too. With restaurants closed, the world's focus turned to the home, and so did ours. We released our first-ever retail line: a collection of forms refined over years of making for chefs, reselected and reworked for the way you live and eat at home. Those pieces became the foundation of our Signature Collection.

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2021

Post-Covid restaurant boom

Starved for hospitality, the NY restaurant scene had a boom immediately following the lockdowns and we partnered with a handful of incredible new restaurants including One White St., 63 Clinton, Joomak Banjum, Musket Room, The Noortwyck, and Greywind, Many of whom received a Michelin Star in their very first year.

Hospitality catalog
2025

Hospitality catalog

Over the years, working with dozens of Chefs across the country we've developed quite a large collection of hospitality specific designs. Our first ever Hospitality Catalog was our attempt to offer a curated collection of some of the most popular tried and true designs.

2026

New Kiln

We had a brand new state-of-the-art kiln custom built in the Netherlands. It took a year and a half to design, build, and ship over here in a container directly from the factory. Once it's up and running it will 5x our firing capacity, so we've got a lot of plates to make!!

Ten years in
CELEBRATE

To celebrate

To Celebrate, and as a thank you to all of our loyal customers over the years, we're throwing the biggest 2nds sale we've ever had. 2nds, overstock, throwbacks, we're even pricing a ton of 1sts as 2nds just to clear out some space. Come celebrate with us.

Aug 15 & 16 | 10AM - 4PM | In person, at the studio
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Sponsor

Captain Lawrence Brewery

Our friends at Captain Lawrence are pouring - come raise a glass to ten years.

Connor McGinn Studios
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