Heath Ceramics is an American company that designs, manufactures, and retails goods for tabletop and home, and is best known for handcrafted ceramic tableware and architectural tile in distinctive glazes.Founded in Sausalito, California by Edith Heath and her husband Brian Heath in 1948, Heath Ceramics is now owned and run by Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic, who purchased the company in 2003.Heath has two manufacturing facilities: its original dinnerware factory in Sausalito , and a tile factory in the Heath Building in San Francisco.Heath sells directly through its stores and its own website, having discontinued its wholesale business in early 2015. Heath maintains four physical sales outlets. In addition to its dinnerware factory and showroom in Sausalito, Heath has a showroom and clay studio in Los Angeles ; a showroom within the San Francisco Ferry Building ; and their flagship San Francisco showroom and clay studio, co-located with the tile factory in the Heath Building . Heath has won numerous awards for design, and in 2015 received the National Design Award for Institutional Achievement, awarded by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in recognition of Heath’s commitment to business by design.
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