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Hand-thrown stoneware ceramics and 100% alpaca knitwear made by family-run manufacturers in Germany and Peru—unobtrusive designs built to last.

Eliza Helmerich

Berlin · Germany

Eliza Helmerich

“Better, social-ecological quality goods, accessible to everyone. That is the challenge of our time.”

REH designs two lines from one desk in Berlin: stoneware thrown by hand at a family workshop in Saxony, and baby alpaca knitwear made in Arequipa, Peru. Eliza Helmerich named the label after her own initials and the Rehberge park near her first studio in Wedding, and still runs it without a team. She grew up in the Franconian countryside, where her grandfather, an artist and master baker, gave her an early education in art, before she trained in fashion design in London and assisted designers in New York, London and Paris. She moved to Berlin in 2014 and started REH the following year.

I have three questions for you, and something in return.

Three questions.

Selected pieces

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Beuys Cup Unglazed Stoneware
€24.04· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Friedländer Cup White Speckled
€24.04· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Burri Black Matte Stoneware Cup
€24.04· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Brutal Stoneware Cup
€24.04· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price

REH Clothing · Berlin, Germany

The village behind the stoneware

Eliza Helmerich designs both of REH's lines herself, but it took her years to find producers who could meet her high standard.

The stoneware comes from a village in the Oberlausitz in Saxony, the knitwear from Arequipa in Peru. Both are designed in Berlin. As a designer, Eliza Helmerich worked for icons like Vivienne Westwood before starting REH of her own in 2015. For most of a decade, she has written, new customers have told her about pieces they bought as stoneware that were nothing of the kind. In 2024 she published a guide on telling stoneware from earthenware.

A family wheel since 1976

Eliza Helmerich with pieces of her stoneware
Eliza Helmerich with her stoneware, photographed by Kerstin Müller, 2023

REH's stoneware comes from Töpferei Thomas Thunig, a pottery in Schmölln-Putzkau, a village near Bischofswerda in the Oberlausitz. Thomas Thunig's father opened the workshop in 1976; after 1989 he returned to his old trade as a stonemason, and his son took over. Around ten people work there today, several of them trained in the house, and every pot is still thrown, painted and glazed by hand.

Black matt stoneware cup from REH's »Burri« series

For REH the workshop makes two collections of Helmerich's design: Polar, matte black and white, from 2015, and Singular, grey and unglazed, from 2021. The pieces carry the names of Bauhaus and modernist ceramicists and artists, Beuys, Burri, Wildenhain and Marguerite among them. Each one is thrown individually, so no piece comes out exactly like the next. The speckle on some surfaces is iron pyrite in the clay, turning metallic in the fire.

White speckled stoneware bowl from the »Wildenhain« series

A rule against overproduction

The knitwear is made in Arequipa, Peru. The core of the line is baby alpaca: sweaters, cardigans, beanies and scarves, joined by felted cashmere and merino pieces and a small jersey line in organic cotton.

»Bauhaus« baby alpaca sweater in navy and black

Helmerich keeps the runs small and restocks slowly rather than holding stock in depth; she has written that she wants to avoid overproduction. When a size sells out, orders move to email, or to the studio, which opens by appointment. REH also supports Ayudame, a children's charity in Arequipa.

Stoneware from one village, knitwear from one city, all of it designed by one person.

The collection

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Terra Light Brown Knit Top
€145· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Terra Light Brown Knit Top
€145· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Beuys Large Unglazed Ceramic Vase
€137.92· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Brutal Small Ceramic Vase
€52· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Beuys Small Unglazed Ceramic Vase
€52· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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Brutal Grey Stoneware Jar with Lid
€26.89· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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