10/25/2026
Meet the Maker | Michael Coates of Wilderhouse
Working from his Chicago studio, ceramicist Michael Coates creates pieces that find beauty in the irregular.
Earthy textures, expressive glazes, and forms that feel both familiar and unexpected. His work brings a distinctly tactile quality to the everyday rituals of living.
Discover Michael Coates, now at Elysian.
Speckled Ceramic Pedestal Bowl
A generous bowl elevated on a sculptural pedestal. Its softly irregular silhouette, speckled cream glaze, and warm russet rim give the piece an almost archaeological quality.
As compelling filled with seasonal fruit as it is standing alone.
Glacier Side Plates
For the smaller pleasures. A piece of bread, a few olives, something sweet after dinner.
Soft washes of gray-blue drift across a warm ivory surface, giving each plate its own subtle expression.
Glacier Salad Plates
There is something beautifully painterly about the Glacier collection. Pale washes of color move across the surface, occasionally gathering into deeper pools of gray.
Glacier Dinner Plates
Made for the everyday table, but far from ordinary.
Generous in proportion, understated in palette, and rich in the small variations that give handmade ceramics their appeal.
Pieces to reach for daily, and keep for years.