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Greek ceramics divide between an Athens studio and the island kilns of Sifnos, where the pottery has its own museum. Trabala Studio makes handmade stoneware in Athens, including a signature ceramic donkey. Alexandros Lemonis Handmade Ceramics throws traditional Sifnos pottery and tableware. Sifnos Pottery Museum (Sifnos Pottery Association) keeps Sifnos ceramic heritage on traditional display. A ceramic donkey loses its ears first in transit, so pack it in the middle of the case with soft things around it. Unglazed pieces belong outdoors, where the sun finishes what the kiln started.
Athens / Greece
Located at Dionysiou Areopagitou 15 in Athens, the Acropolis Museum runs a ground-floor gift store and a second-floor bookstore stocked with exhibit-inspired jewelry, ceramics, and titles on Athenian history. Its standout offering is a line of precise hand-cast exhibit replicas produced in the museum's own workshops by the conservators who care for the originals.
Best for Museum shop, replicas, jewelry
Athens / Greece
Reached through the Stathatos Mansion entrance while the museum's main doorway is under construction, the Cycladic Shop sells jewelry, ceramics, and gift items inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art's collection, from figurine-shaped earrings to reproduction ceramic bowls. Every purchase supports the Athens museum's educational and scientific programs.
Best for Jewelry, ceramics and gifts inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art collection
Koukaki, Athens
Medley sells ceramics, prints, textiles, stationery and small objects by Greek makers in Koukaki. Its scale makes it useful for design-led gifts that travel easily without resorting to generic souvenirs.
Best for Ceramics, prints, textiles, and stationery by Greek makers.
Monastiraki
Contemporary Greek ceramic-art gallery and shop at Thiseiou 7 in Monastiraki, Athens, founded 2017 by ceramist Eleonore Trenado-Finetis, showing handmade, collectible work by Greek makers across generations.
Best for Ceramics by independent Greek makers
Mon Coin Studio is a ceramic-art gallery and retail space on Thiseiou Street in Monastiraki, a short walk from the Acropolis, founded in 2017 by ceramist Eleonore Trenado-Finetis. The space presents original, handmade ceramics, pottery and sculpture from established and emerging Greek makers, with an emphasis on showing the range of contemporary Greek ceramic practice rather than a single house style or generation. Beyond standing retail, Mon Coin Studio stages themed group exhibitions of contemporary Greek ceramics, positioning it as both a commercial gallery and a curatorial platform for the medium in Athens. Every piece sold is described as an original, one-off work rather than a production run. It keeps standard gallery hours, Monday through Saturday.
Koukaki
Trabala Studio is a ceramic workshop in Athens' Koukaki neighborhood, founded by Jenny and Iraklis in 2017. They hand-throw stoneware pieces like ceramic donkeys and coffee cups, fired at up to 1280°C.
Best for Handmade stoneware ceramics, including a signature ceramic donkey and small coffee cups.
Tucked into a quiet corner of Koukaki, just south of the Acropolis, Trabala Studio has been shaping stoneware since 2017, when Jenny and Iraklis opened the workshop together. The pair work almost entirely in high-temperature stoneware clay, firing pieces between 1260°C and 1280°C — a range that gives their tableware and decorative objects a density closer to traditional Greek pottery than to delicate studio ceramics.
The shop doubles as a working studio, so visitors can see pieces take shape before they're glazed. Among the recurring forms are a small ceramic donkey and a pair of miniature cups built for the short, strong shot of Greek coffee. Nothing here is mass-produced: each piece carries the particular imperfections of hand-thrown clay, glazed by two people rather than a production line.
Trabala keeps modest, published hours — open Tuesday through Saturday, with specific windows on weekdays and a single Wednesday block — and sits on Odissea Androutsou, a residential street a short walk from Koukaki's main shopping strip. For visitors after a souvenir made where they bought it, it's a specific, traceable stop rather than a generic gift shop.
Thrapsano, Heraklion
In Thrapsano, the pottery village about 30 km south of Heraklion, potter Manolis Moutsakis throws frost-proof jars, pots and planters on the wheel from local clay. The workshop continues the village's long tradition of large storage pitharia, fired for outdoor durability.
Best for Handmade Cretan pottery and garden pithari jars
Sapoutie 2, Heraklion / Online
Irida Family Workshop in Heraklion, Crete makes reproductions of ancient Greek objects. It supplies stores throughout Greece and abroad with pieces it describes as exact museum copies that have received awards for quality and fidelity. The range runs from bronze armour and helmets to Minoan statues and busts in ceramic or alabaster, with geometric vases and chess sets in wooden boxes. It also builds designs a customer suggests, and shows its work each year at exhibitions in Athens and Heraklion.
Best for Own-design ceramic, bronze and museum-inspired decorative objects produced through the family workshop
Rhodes
This family estate in Paradisi makes wine, extra virgin olive oil and distillates alongside local honey and ceramics. Visitors can tour the vineyards, sit down to tastings or join hands-on cooking experiences.
Best for Wine, olive oil and estate experiences
Rhodes
Ceramist Theodore Karayiannis runs this contemporary studio and shop in Rhodes, selling handmade pottery. Classes are on offer for those who want to try the wheel.
Best for Ceramist Theodore Karayiannis's handmade pottery and wheel-throwing classes in Rhodes
6 Danaidon Street, 54626 Thessaloniki / Greece
A ceramics workshop and gallery shop selling functional and decorative ceramic objects.
Thessaloniki / Greece
JD Art runs both a ceramics studio offering pottery workshops and an online shop of handmade mugs, plates, and vases from its space at Christoforou Perevou 40 in Pilaia, Thessaloniki. Orders over 50€ ship free within Greece, and the studio also sells wholesale to other retailers.
Best for Ceramics, Pottery, Workshops
Thessaloniki / Greece
Mi Madas ti Margarita has a flagship store on Ioustinianou in Thessaloniki selling modern handmade ceramic objects.
Best for Handmade ceramic objects
Thessaloniki / Greece
Pilithos hand-throws modern, wabi-sabi-inspired stoneware, plates, mugs, vases, and lamps, from its shop and lab at 25 Stromnitsis Street in Thessaloniki's Ntepo district, open Tuesday through Saturday. Since every piece is one of a kind, customers can buy in person or through the studio's online e-shop.
Best for Ceramics, Handmade Pottery
Apollonia, Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece
Potter Alexandros Lemonis makes handmade Sifnian ceramics and tableware, continuing the island's traditional pottery craft. His main workshop is at Platis Gialos, with a second exhibition and shop opened in 1998 in the island capital, Apollonia.
Best for Traditional handmade Sifnos pottery and ceramic tableware
Kamares, Sifnos, Cyclades
Giannis Apostolidis, third generation of a Sifnos potting family, works the wheel at his En Sifno workshop in Leivadas on the road from Kamares to Apollonia. The workshop turns out earthen cooking vessels and everyday plates and mugs alongside decorative pieces. A second showroom stands on the central shopping street of Platis Gialos.
Best for Wheel-thrown Sifnos cooking pots and tableware from a third-generation potter
Giannis Apostolidis throws and fires traditional Sifnos pottery at his En Sifno workshop in the area of Leivadas, on the central road from Kamares to Apollonia. The family line runs back to the end of 1800, when the first Giannis Apostolidis worked as a potter on the island. His son Simos Apostolidis apprenticed at nine with Giorgos Venikouas on Herronisos. Later he followed his uncle Apostolos Fyssas to Syros. In 1936 Simos moved to Halandri in Attica for four years, working at the workshops of Nikos Toulis and Alekos Kardiakos before returning to Sifnos. The present Giannis, named after his grandfather, represents the third generation and is already passing the craft to his younger son Simos. The shelves hold earthen cooking vessels alongside plates and mugs. Decorative and thematic pieces stand beside them. Visitors can watch the wheel at work and follow every phase of manufacture. They then choose a piece with the potter's help. A second En Sifno showroom stands on the central shopping street of Platis Gialos, where the workshop's summer exhibitions are also shown.
Old Harbour, Chania Old Town
This family pottery works from an 800-year-old Venetian building on the old harbour of Chania, making handmade mugs, plates, bowls and decorative pieces. The family also teaches wheel-throwing and painting on the same premises.
Best for Harbour-side handmade pottery and workshops
old Venetian harbour, Chania
Kritamon, in Chania's old Venetian harbour at Kondilaki 38, sells olive-wood items such as bowls, spoons, bracelets and photo-frames alongside hand-painted ceramics in the Greek Folk Art style. It also stocks Pamako olive oil, honey from the Toplou Monastery and wines from Cretan producers including Karavitaki, Manousaki and Lyraraki.
Best for Cretan olive wood and ceramics
Skridlof (Leather Street), Chania Old Town
Michael Laventzakis has thrown functional handmade ceramics in Chania since 1980, shaping clay into dishes, mugs, clay bakeware and kitchen pieces for everyday use. His own production is sold from shops on Skridlof Street in the old town and at Platanias.
Best for Handmade Cretan tableware and clay cookware
Corfu Town
Ceramic artist Myrto Zirini works from a part-workshop, part-showroom on Arseniou Street in Corfu's UNESCO-listed Old Town, hand-building sculptural vessels, bowls, lamps and relief pieces. She sells the one-off works online and runs hands-on ceramic sessions, including a class making protective Medusa reliefs.
Best for One-off handmade studio ceramics
Artemonas, Sifnos, Cyclades
Founded in 2001 at the Dragatsi Estate in Artemonas, this pottery museum and association preserves and presents the ceramic tradition of Sifnos. It showcases traditional Sifnian ceramics and the island's potters.
Best for Sifnos ceramic heritage, traditional pottery display
Verekinthos, Chania
Tetraktis designs and hand-builds ceramic objects at the Verekinthos artisans' village outside Chania, firing pieces by methods including raku. Alongside its wares the studio runs wheel-throwing classes and seminars for beginners and experienced potters.
Best for Raku-fired ceramics and wheel-throwing classes at the Verekinthos artisans' village
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