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The Circle Selection
Carbon Luxe
A dry gunmetal glaze that reads cool grey in the flat and turns bronze where it catches the light, laid over cut geometry — hexagons, triangles, squares with a lifted corner. The most graphic set in the Circle Selection.
The glaze
Gunmetal, with bronze in the light
Steel grey · slate · graphite · bronze · near-black
A dry, matte metallic glaze with a fine sparkle in it. Flat on, it reads cool grey to slate; turn a piece under a light and the same surface goes bronze along whichever edge is facing the source. Nothing about it is glossy, so it never throws a hard reflection at the table.
The forms are cut rather than thrown: a hexagon, a triangle, a square with the sides drawn up, a bowl pulled to an egg. Straight lines and a metal finish, which is why it reads as the most modern set in the range.
A few pieces
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A selection, not the full range. Over 300 shapes are made in this glaze, and bespoke shapes to order.
Your dish on Carbon Luxe
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On the plate
Plating Carbon Luxe
What it flatters
White and cream above all: cheesecake, burrata, cauliflower, scallop, aioli. Black food — squid ink, charcoal, black garlic — also holds because the glaze is grey rather than black.
Contrast that works
Anything pale or bright separates cleanly. Grey-brown braises and mushroom sit too close to the glaze, so break them with acid or a green oil.
Building a table
The straight edges want straight plating — a line, a block, one clean arc. Strongest as a course or two inside a menu rather than the whole service.
In service
Two dishes on Carbon Luxe
Short enough to hand to a section chef.
On the hexagonal tray
Black Ink Risotto, Calamari & Parmesan
180g carnaroli rice · 1 shallot · 100ml dry white wine · 700ml light fish stock · 4 sachets squid ink · 300g small calamari, cleaned · 8 cherry tomatoes · 40g Parmesan, shaved · olive oil · 20g butter · micro basil · flaky salt
- Confit the tomatoes in oil at 130°C for 25 minutes, until they slump but hold.
- Sweat the shallot, add the rice and toast it, then the wine. Add stock a ladle at a time for 16 to 18 minutes.
- Stir the ink through in the last three minutes, then beat in the butter off the heat. The risotto should spread slowly, not run.
- Sear the calamari hard in a dry pan for a minute, no more, and salt it at once.
- Spoon the risotto into a low round in the middle of the tray, pile the calamari on top, and set the tomatoes and Parmesan shavings around it. Micro basil and flaky salt to finish.
Black on grey works because the glaze is metallic, not black — the risotto reads as a shape rather than a hole. The hexagon frames a round plating cleanly.
On the triangular plate
New York Cheesecake, Lemon Curd & Blueberries
200g digestive biscuits · 90g melted butter · 700g full-fat cream cheese · 180g caster sugar · 3 eggs · 1 yolk · 150ml sour cream · zest of 1 lemon · 1 tsp vanilla · for the curd: 2 lemons, 100g sugar, 2 eggs, 60g butter · 200g blueberries · mint · icing sugar
- Blitz the biscuits, mix with the butter, press into a lined 23cm tin and bake at 170°C for 10 minutes.
- Beat the cream cheese smooth with the sugar, then the eggs one at a time, then the sour cream, zest and vanilla. Do not whip air into it.
- Bake in a water bath at 150°C for 55 to 65 minutes, until the centre still wobbles. Cool in the oven with the door ajar, then chill overnight.
- Cook the curd ingredients over a low heat to a thick custard, sieve, and chill.
- Cut a clean wedge, lay it along one side of the plate, spoon curd over the top, and scatter blueberries, mint and a little icing sugar into the space beside it.
Pale cream against gunmetal is the sharpest contrast this glaze gives, and the triangle lets you set the wedge on one edge and leave the rest of the plate empty.
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See it in your kitchen
A metallic matte changes colour with the light in the room, which no photograph shows. Tell us which shapes interest you and we'll send them.