Forrest Lesch-Middelton Ceramics

Forrest Lesch-Middelton Ceramics High quality, hand made functional ceramics and tile.

Our dinnerware is designed to elevate everything that comes with the joys of eating, cooking, sitting down with friends,...
08/27/2026

Our dinnerware is designed to elevate everything that comes with the joys of eating, cooking, sitting down with friends, and slowing down to enjoy the moment. They are durable stoneware, they get better with age, and while the feel like heirloom dish ware, you’ll want to use them every day. I’ll be honest, sometimes I just throw a bagel on one of our salad plates and jump in the car on my way to work. Feel free to shop from the tagged images, and if an item isn’t in stock we’ll get right to making it in our Petaluma studio and have it in your hands in just a few short weeks!

FOCUS GalleryTread Lightly | Forrest Lesch-Middelton and Beth SchaibleOn view through August 29Beth Schaible’s hand carv...
08/25/2026

FOCUS Gallery

Tread Lightly | Forrest Lesch-Middelton and Beth Schaible
On view through August 29

Beth Schaible’s hand carved illustrations feature panoramas, flora, and weathered barns from her wanderings in the Blue Ridge Mountains and along the Northern California coast. Forrest Lesch-Middelton’s forms are adorned with ornamental motifs from the Seljuk empire, Ottoman ceramic designs, and in the case of Camino, the patchwork pattern of a black and white hide rug from Argentina. Camino’s name is the Spanish word for road, and is meant to evoke connection and hospitality as an antithesis to the current political administration’s penchant for border walls and division.

This is the final week to view Tread Lightly in person. To purchase or see more of Beth and Forrest’s work online, visit the link in our bio.

Say it with me now, 10 times fast! Drop a coffee 🫘 or ☕️, or raise your hand in the comments if you can do it!
08/21/2026

Say it with me now, 10 times fast! Drop a coffee 🫘 or ☕️, or raise your hand in the comments if you can do it!

Handmade tile never ceases to please my senses
08/16/2026

Handmade tile never ceases to please my senses

08/09/2026

A snapshot of a day in the life of FLM Ceramics and Petaluma Pottery Studio

🏺You really need to understand how good this is going to be. I love these two humans with all my heart, suze lindsay and...
07/29/2026

🏺You really need to understand how good this is going to be. I love these two humans with all my heart, suze lindsay and Vince Montague are absolutely amazing, compassionate, creative, hilarious, and wells of wisdom, and their stories of resilience, grief, and compassion told through clay and the written word are profound. It’s rare that we get to be witness to such a beautiful, maybe once in a lifetime, dynamic such as this. We’re not only proud that it will take place at our teaching studio Petaluma Pottery Studio , I can say without question that this is the one workshop I’d like to attend more than any other this year, I’m proud to be here for this, and to introduce a few people to these wonderful souls working together!

Description Below:

“This is more than just a clay class, it has the potential to change your entire studio practice and outlook on creativity. We’re welcoming two of our favorite makers and people into our studio and think this is experience not to be missed.”

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Inspiration comes from many sources, especially ourselves. Join Vince and Suze as they open up their studio practices to share their creative strategies behind the how and the why of their functional and sculptural work. This workshop will explore how curiosity becomes form, how vulnerability becomes strength, and how making can be an act of resilience. This workshop will draw upon our own stories and imagery to generate new pathways for work through playful experimentation and improvisation. Each artist will share strategies and techniques to support ideas that come to us from writing and drawing. On the second day of the workshop we will investigate surface design that speak to the life of the maker behind the work. This experience is for all levels and partially hands on, so bring your sketchbook for writing and drawing to be inspired to create new ceramic work about personal form and imagery.

Founded by Forrest Lesch-Middelton, and operated by artists and craftspeople, we are a small, internationally acclaimed ...
07/27/2026

Founded by Forrest Lesch-Middelton, and operated by artists and craftspeople, we are a small, internationally acclaimed & award winning company making tile by hand in Petaluma, California. We work with designers and trade professionals to provide tiles that ground any space with a feeling of timelessness and a immediate sense of history.

07/27/2026

I love to tinker and come up with new tools for the studio. Sharing this fountain glazer hack from an old slip casting table for glazing interiors. I also made an adapter that gives us the option to pour glaze from a tube for the outside of larger pots from the same set up.

07/21/2026

😁Our sample and seconds sale is happening! Check this out for more info. DM with any questions, or go to our website to peruse our selection!

07/18/2026

Our Tile Seconds and Overstock sale is on again! July 17-August 1st. Online and in person at our Petaluma, CA showroom. Prices get lower as the sale goes on, the early bird gets the best tiles to choose from, those willing to risk waiting get the better pricing! Visit our website for more info or to buy, DM if you’ve got questions!

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301 2nd Street
Petaluma, CA
94952

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