Coffee & Clay ☕️ (16+)
Booking Details
A slow Saturday morning filled with creativity, ceramics, and great coffee.
Take a break from the busy week and enjoy a freshly prepared barista coffee as you create and decorate your favorite morning ceramic. Whether it’s a mug, breakfast bowl, matcha bowl, candle holder, or another functional ceramic piece, you’ll create something you’ll enjoy using for years to come.
During this 2.5-hour Modellierkurs, our instructors will guide you step by step, making the workshop perfect for beginners as well as anyone looking for a relaxed and inspiring creative experience.
Once your piece is formed, explore colorful underglazes and decorative techniques to create a piece that is uniquely yours. Experiment with painting, patterns, textures, and playful details before we professionally apply a transparent glaze and fire your work twice. Your finished ceramic will be food-safe, dishwasher-safe, and ready to become part of your daily routine.
Whether you come on your own, with a friend, or as a special weekend treat, Coffee & Clay is the perfect way to slow down, enjoy exceptional coffee, and create something beautiful with your own hands.
Details
Duration: 2.5 hours
Type: Modellierkurs
Level & Age: Beginners, 16+
Includes: One ceramic piece, all materials, colorful underglazes, transparent glaze, two kiln firings, one freshly prepared barista coffee or tea, and instructor guidance.
Price: €72 per person
Optional: Additional ceramic piece +€12
During the quieter season from May to September, selected one-day social workshops may take place together with another workshop in a similar format. For example, Wine & Clay, Coffee & Clay, Hugging Cups, or other hand-building workshops may share the same studio session, while each participant still works on the project they booked.
Working alongside participants from other workshops also offers a lovely opportunity to learn from one another and discover new techniques or ideas that we may not have covered in your own course.
This creates a lively and inspiring group atmosphere while also allowing us to offer more workshop dates throughout the summer. From October to April, these workshops are generally held as separate course groups.
After you're done working on your piece, we make sure the conditions are right for your piece to dry properly - after a day or two, we turn it upside down and write your initials on it. Depending on the thickness of your creation, it will take 3-10 days to dry completely. Once it's dry, we fire it at 960 degrees - reaching the proper temperature and cooling takes about 28 hours. After the initial "raw" firing, we dip your piece in the transparent glaze and place it in the kiln again - this time to fire at 1200 degrees. After another 36 hours, your piece is beautiful, shiny, very durable, and fully functional. You can now use it every day, put it in the dishwasher and be proud of yourself. :) In 2-3 weeks after your class, your piece is ready for a pickup. For an extra charge, we can also ship it to you wherever you are in the EU.
In order to glaze your pieces, they first need to be fired once. This takes about two weeks. An additional appointment glazing workshop is required for this. At the end of your first course, you can purchase a voucher card including a voucher code for the glazing workshop on site and then book your appointment online.
You will have a selection of more than 45 glazes available. Many of the glazes develop color variations during firing and are therefore particularly suitable for larger surfaces. Smaller details may blur slightly. However, we offer alternative colors that are better suited for this.
In the case of a rescheduling or cancellation, you will find the corresponding instructions under the first question “How can I reschedule my course?”
Important: Rescheduling requests via email, phone or in person cannot be accepted and are therefore invalid.
On the one hand, there is wheel throwing, where pieces are created on the electric pottery wheel. The resulting objects are characteristically round, symmetrical and thin. On the other hand, there is modeling and shaping clay by hand at the worktable. This includes coiling, pinch technique and slab technique. Here you are not bound to the round base shape created by the wheel and can freely express your creativity.
However, shorter nails – and for pottery wheel courses also a hair tie for longer hair as well as clothes that may get a little dirty – are an advantage. If despite the aprons some clay or glaze gets onto your clothing, don’t worry, both can be easily washed out.
We keep already glazed course pieces in our pickup shelves for 3 months. After that, due to space limitations, they are sorted into monthly boxes where we can no longer guarantee completeness or condition. Every year before Christmas, we donate all remaining pieces that have been with us for more than one year to “Aktion Leben” to bring joy to someone else. :)
Shipping within Austria (1–3 pieces*): €7.17
Shipping to Germany (1–3 pieces*): €17.35
Shipping within the EU (1–3 pieces*): €21.00
An additional packaging & service fee of €9.50 applies per package, as we wrap each piece by hand and personally drop it off at the post office to ensure it arrives safely :)
Medium-sized pieces such as cups, bowls, plates, small vases. Large pieces such as vases, jugs, etc. are calculated as 2 medium-sized pieces.
Bookings for 1-4 people:
Refund/Cancellation: Possible within 24 hours after booking
Rescheduling: possible once up to 24 hours before the appointment
Bookings for 5–9 people:
Refund / Cancellation: Possible within 24 hours after the booking.
Rescheduling: Possible once up to 7 days before the (first) course day.
Bookings for 10+ people:
Refund / Cancellation: Possible within 24 hours after the booking.
Rescheduling: Possible once up to 14 days before the (first) course day.
You can adjust your booking independently through the rescheduling/cancellation button in your confirmation mail. Cancellation or rescheduling requests cannot be accepted via email, SMS/WhatsApp, or phone.