L&Clay Ceramics is the brainchild of artist Lesley Boerio. Drawing from her expertise in retail and marketing, she launched her brand, channelling her creative passion into clay. Blending text with ceramics, Lesley crafts striking vessels that are not only visually captivating but also highly functional, adding a vibrant touch to any living space. Each piece is meticulously handmade, boasting a completely unique character that embraces the beauty of imperfections inherent in hand-built craftsmanship. The medium of clay becomes the canvas for texture and bespoke artistry.

L&Clay Ceramics

Boerio’s Cafe Restaurant Coaster

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Back To The Beach Pink Plate

Behind A Cigarette Ashtray

Burn Your Initials Ashtray

Crying On The Kitchen Floor Vase

Dog Person Dog Bowl

Good Boy Dog Bowl

Good Girl Dog Bowl

I Exist To Do This Vase

I Read All Your Texts Small Bowl

I Want To Be Invited Small Plate

I'll Be In The Basement Ashtray

I’ll Have A Rum Vase

In The Bars Small Bowl

Life Is A Cigarette Ashtray

Love To Love Tiny Plate

Love To Love Small Plate

My 7th Cigarette Ashtray

Personalised Letter Dog or Cat Bowl

Play Some Pool Ashtray

Red Skies Vase

Take Another Drag Ashtray

Turn Me To Ashes Ashtray

We Were Born To Die Small Bowl

Will You Still Coaster

I Stay Out Too Late Trinket Tray Pink

I Did Not Mind Ashtray

She’s A Star Coaster

Chain Smoking Ashtray

Cash Bar Coaster

Personalised Dog Water Bowl

Personalised Dog or Cat Bowl

Personalised Dog Food Bowl

Brighter Days Vase

Watching the Flowers Vase

Poppy Side Plate

Oui Je T’aime Ashtray Pink

Mon Amour Ashtray

Looking For The Things Small Plate

I Stay In Bed Trinket Tray

I Party All Night Trinket Tray

I Don't Want To Go Home Trinket Tray

Bring Me Roses Side Plate

Have a Nice Day Trinket Tray

No Drinks On The Dance Floor Small Plate

Smoke Some Fags Ashtray

Vintage YSL Coaster

For the friend who’s always hosting, the one who keeps every photo, or the person whose shelves always have room for one more lovely thing, we’ve gathered gifts they’ll actually want. A gingham platter for the next long lunch, a little tray for rings and keys, a soft knitted blanket for the sofa. Small pieces with plenty of character, from some of our favourite makers. Gifting under £100, sorted.

Gifting Under £100

For the one who loves a long bath, a proper cup of tea and a night in, these are gifts under £50 that still feel special. There’s a harlequin hot water bottle by CHICKPEA for the friend who’s still holding out on the heating, a porcelain shell soap dish by Minnie-Mae Studio for the bathroom shelf, and the Café Cecilia cookbook from Phaidon for the one who’d happily spend all weekend cooking.
Each one is picked with a particular person in mind, the kind who likes nice things and actually uses them. Gift something lovely this Christmas.

Gifting Under £50

Our weekly Nice Things Edit is a curated Monday round-up of what we’re loving right now. From our favourite pieces on Glassette to a recipe, a watch, a read, a place to visit, a restaurant, and a gift worth bookmarking.
Each week, every member of the Glassette team shares their current favourites, whether that’s new arrivals, pieces we’ve spotted trending, or timeless finds we can’t stop thinking about. Think of it as a weekly dose of joy, discovery, and design inspiration, handpicked by the Glassette team.

Nice Things This Week

Surfer Ainara (@ainaraymat) lives in Zarautz, twenty minutes along the coast from San Sebastián. We followed her between the two, from the coffee bar she starts the day in to a pintxos counter where nobody sits down. These are the places she keeps going back to, and the ones most visitors walk straight past.
With Magic Capture on Google Pixel 11 Pro, she films the wave and pulls the stills out afterwards, so she can watch the water instead of the screen.
Watch Ainara’s guide to San Sebastián on Instagram.

San Sebastián and Zarautz Guide

Weddings are feeling less traditional and far more personal. Couples are moving away from polished perfection in favour of atmosphere, individuality and details that feel layered with meaning. Think candlelight over floral installations, initials over themes and tables that borrow from intimate dinner parties rather than classic receptions. The modern wedding is becoming an exercise in world-building, where every detail, from the lapel to the place setting, feels curated.

Autumn/Winter Wedding Trend Report

The most interesting rooms of the season weren't decorated, they were collected. New pieces sit along vintage forms, inherited proportions with furniture and textiles that are layer and loved. A collected room is never finished, and it isn't trying to be.

Trending Now: New Nostalgia

Sir Paul Smith has been a shopkeeper since 1970, when he opened a room in Nottingham that traded on Fridays and Saturdays only. Fifty-six years later he still works the floor on Albemarle Street on a Saturday, which tells you most of what you need to know. His London is a small one, and it is walked. Bury Street for the galleries, Holborn for the Soane, Claridge's at Christmas, Covent Garden for a shop that sells enamel dustpans. It is the list of a man who has spent fifty years looking at things and deciding which ones are worth keeping.

Paul Smith's Guide to London

A desk is the only surface in the house that nobody furnishes on purpose. Everything on it arrived for a reason and none of the reasons were aesthetic: the pen came free, the mug is from a conference, the paper is held down by whatever was nearest. Which is a shame, because it's where a lot of us now spend the hours we used to spend elsewhere. The ten brands here make the things that end up within arm's reach for years: mouth-blown glass paperweights, hand-built trays for the stuff that has nowhere else to go, a diary invented in 1908 to fit inside a breast pocket. None of it will make you work faster. That isn't the job.

10 Deskware Brands to Know

The halls room is a known quantity. Magnolia walls, a single bed, a desk pushed under the window, a radiator with a mind of its own and a ban on anything adhesive. You get it for nine months and you cannot change a thing about it structurally.
What you can change is what you put in it. The list below is not about making a student room look like a shoot. It is about the small number of objects that make a rented box feel like yours by the second week, and that survive the move out, the house share in second year and the flat after that.
Buy fewer things. Buy them once.

18 Things Worth Buying For A New Room At Uni

The ones worth saving for the last week of August, when the light goes long and everything starts packing itself away.
There is a specific kind of film about the end of summer, and it is not really about summer at all. It is about the afternoon the shutters get closed, the argument that surfaces on the last night, the person who was there in July and is not there in September. These nine understand it.

9 Films for the End of Summer

Our Co-Founder and Creative Director Laura Jackson rediscovers forgotten Mallorcan treasures.
"Four summer days in Mallorca. We found ourselves there to celebrate a family wedding and in the days following, we set out to find some glittering coves and secret swimming spots, local lunch spots and beautiful ceramics to take home. The south east corner is a part of Mallorca I haven't visited since I was young and I felt all the excitement of rediscovering forgotten treasures and well kept secrets." Laura

Mallorca Guide

Eleanor is Glassette's Buying and Brand Acquisition Manager - the person who sources new homeware and lifestyle brands for the platform, shapes the ranges, and spots what's worth paying attention to before most people have clocked it. Every month, she shares the products she can't stop thinking about, the trends quietly moving into interiors, and honest recommendations she'd genuinely spend her own money on.
This month: the back-to-school dread that ends, as ever, in a new notebook and a house full of primary colours, the frames built around a polaroid strip rather than in spite of it, the tea towels she's decided are too good for the kitchen and has hung on the wall instead, the yoghurt topping the whole office keeps asking about, and the six mirrors doing six entirely different things with the same object.

August Product Diaries

The last warm evenings of the year, and what to do with them. London in late August has a particular quality. The parks are worn thin from three months of use. The light turns amber around seven and the air cools by ten. Almost every outdoor programme in the city is now in its final fortnight, which lends the whole thing a useful urgency. You either go this week or you wait until next May.
Here are 9 ways to spend the evenings that are left, from a floating lido in the Docklands to a car park roof in Peckham.

9 Outdoor Dates for the End of Summer in London

Tonight, 12 August, a total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. Britain isn't in the path of totality, and never gets the full blackout drama this time round. What we get instead is a partial eclipse, low in the west, right around sunset. That sounds like a consolation prize. It isn't. A sun sliced into a crescent and sinking into the sea is its own kind of spectacle, and the further west and south you are, the more dramatic it looks. Bring eclipse glasses (sunglasses will not do), a clear western horizon, and low expectations of the British weather. Timings shift by several minutes across the country, and the sun sets earlier the further east you are - check local start times and sunset for your exact spot before you head out.

The Best Places in the UK to View the Solar Eclipse

We all know summer changes (and raises the stakes of) a London date. The city stays light until ten, the pavements fill up, and suddenly "drinks?" feels like a wasted opportunity. This is a list for doing it properly - organised not by postcode but by the kind of date you're on. The nervy first coffee. The ice cream that's really an excuse for a walk. The wine bar where things get interesting. The spot that becomes a permanent fixture long after the first, third and fifth date. And, naturally, for when it matters, somewhere special. Twenty places, five categories, one long summer. Use accordingly.

Where to go for summer dates in London

Chelsea Flower Show is here. To celebrate, we've put together an edit that asks: what if flowers were interiors? The answer, it turns out, is rather beautiful.

Flowers as Interiors

The right ceramics change a table entirely. Not in a curated, every-element-considered way - but in the quieter sense that a well-made bowl or a frilled candlestick can make everything around it feel more deliberate.
Whether they taught themselves through grief, channelled two decades of fashion industry expertise into clay, or found their way to a wheel somewhere between a career pivot and a lockdown, Britain's makers share a certain sensibility: handmade but not precious, expressive but not loud. These are the ten makers whose work we keep returning to - and whose pieces are increasingly hard to get hold of once the drops go live.