Two Materials, One Ritual

One material holds the drink. The other changes how you hold it.

Arc Mug brings Japanese ceramic and walnut together at the two places you experience a mug most. The dark glazed ceramic meets your lips, while the curved walnut handle brings natural grain and a different texture exactly where your fingers meet it.

What begins as a material contrast becomes part of the experience every time you pick up the cup.

Designed Around the Hand

• Shaped for the Hand

Rather than continuing the ceramic body through the handle, walnut takes over exactly where your hand meets the cup. It's formed into a distinctive curved profile, designed to sit naturally in the hand.

The result is a handle defined as much by how the hand closes around it as by how it contrasts with the ceramic beside it.

• Smooth at the Lip

While your hand meets walnut, your lips still meet ceramic. The ceramic surface is finished to feel smooth to the touch and soft against the lips, preserving ceramic exactly where the drinking experience happens.

Each material has its own role in the same drinking experience.

• Cast Iron, Reinterpreted

The Japanese ceramic body is finished with a signature glaze that creates the look and feel of cast iron, giving ceramic an unexpectedly weighty visual character.

Against the dark glazed surface, the natural walnut becomes even more pronounced, making the meeting of ceramic and wood the cup's defining visual contrast.

• Room for Your Daily Pour

With a 350 ml (12 fl. oz.) capacity, Arc Mug gives you room for a full serving of coffee or tea.

Made Through Eleven Steps

Each Arc Mug is handcrafted in Taiwan through 11 artisanal processes, combining Japanese ceramic with a separately shaped walnut handle.

Natural variations in the walnut grain remain visible from one cup to the next, giving each handle subtle differences of its own.

Between Hand and Cup

Coffee and tea are made up of small, repeated gestures. Pour. Pick up. Drink. Set down. Then reach for the cup again a few minutes later.

With each one, the materials change with the movement. Your fingers close around the curved walnut handle. Bring the cup closer, and smooth ceramic takes its place at the lip.

After a while, you stop noticing two materials at all. You're simply reaching for the cup that happens to feel like this.