UMÉ Studio

Bouton Dish in Black

Name: Bouton Dish in Black
Brand: UMÉ Studio
SKU: Bton-Sml-Blk
Price: 28.0 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Cast in a single pour and shaped like an oversized button, the Bouton holds whatever you reach for daily: rings by the sink, a bar of soap, olives and their pits. The body is hand-cast concrete blended with gypsum cement, mica, and natural pigments, pigmented to a deep matte charcoal-black. No two pours come out identical, and mica surfaces across the black like grit catching low light. It's sized to nest an Erode soap exactly.

Material: Hand-cast concrete, gypsum cement, mica, natural pigments
Finish: Solid black, each piece varies
Care: Wipe clean; suitable for everyday objects, soap, or serving

Dimensions

5" diam.

About UMÉ Studio

UMÉ Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice founded in 2016 by architects Victor Lefebvre and Mei-Lan Tan, who met while working at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel before settling their studio in Oakland, California. The name comes from the Japanese word for plum, a fitting reference for a practice rooted in Asian craft traditions and an architect's eye for form.

Lefebvre and Tan begin each piece with materiality. They travel for months to artisan workshops across California, Paris, Kyoto, Bali, and beyond, drawing on century-old skills and techniques, then updating those forms for contemporary life. The result is a collection of tactile objects that blur the line between art and function.