Massachusetts (New England) · Est. 2007 · Founded by Shawn Laughlin
Shawn Laughlin left a career producing television commercials in New York with a trained eye for color, composition, and depth -- and a conviction that the American table deserved something more considered. She founded Caskata in 2007 in Massachusetts, where a small team of women designs and produces handmade bone china and porcelain tableware in a skylit studio overlooking the New England coast. The pieces are heirlooms from the moment you unwrap them.
Shawn Laughlin spent over a decade in New York producing national television commercials before she turned her eye toward the table. She founded Caskata in 2007 with a singular belief: that simplicity combined with restraint creates things that endure. Not trend-driven tableware, not safe neutrals, but pieces with real graphic beauty and compositional sensitivity -- the kind that feel both timeless and genuinely contemporary.
Caskata operates out of a skylit studio in Massachusetts, one of only a handful of ateliers of its kind in the United States. The small team -- almost entirely women -- designs, oversees production, and finishes handmade bone china and porcelain tableware that draws equally from coastal New England landscapes and formative years spent in New York and Paris. Collections span the quietly graphic to the enchantingly detailed, all made to be used every day and loved for a lifetime. Caskata has won the ARTS Award for Tabletop Manufacturer of the Year three times, and landed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies three years running. On a registry, a Caskata setting is the kind of gift someone pulls out for their first dinner party and never stops reaching for.
