My double espresso this morning came in one of the new Calusa pottery cups in the picture. Luis was just telling me they thought of making these cups after a trip Maria and he made to the multicolored mountains in the Andes. Because an artisan made them in Peru by hand using sand in different colors, each cup looks a little different depending on the exact mix of sand it got.
The same potter also made two other Calusa designs in bigger sizes for cappuccinos and lattes. There’s a dark blue one with white slashes to remind them of their snowboard trips, and a brown one that looks like a tree branch to remind them of their Georgia bike trips. Like the espresso cups, those designs are also individually colored and textured so that each cup tells a little story of its own.
They made a bunch of these cups with its plates and brought them over from Peru to use at the shop, and Luis is now thinking of selling them online as well. They are pretty expensive, so instead of just listing them here on the website he’s thinking of putting them up on Etsy, so that a bigger group of handmade pottery fans can find them. Still, I got to see them first by coming to Calusa this morning.