From a small studio in regional Victoria, he produces wares for top restaurants in Australia and New York. And he’s just getting started.
Just back from a whirlwind trip to New York, potter Sam Gordon sits hunched over the wheel in his home studio on a four-hectare property at Gembrook, in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges. It’s an hour’s drive from Melbourne and a far cry from the Big Apple: Gordon lives here off-grid with his wife and three children.
Buckingham is the co-founder of New York venues Chinese Tuxedo, which opened in 2016 in Chinatown, and pan-Asian eatery The Tyger, launched in Soho in 2020. The plate Gordon has just thrown is a stoneware oyster platter, part of an order of share and small plates for Buckingham’s new bar, SoSo. Located next door to The Tyger, it’s set to open next month.
While at Robert Gordon, he was able to build a network of high-profile hospitality clients – many of whom he counts as friends – as growing numbers of restaurateurs turned to bespoke crockery in the early 2000s. His first big commission, though, came from his biggest supporter, Matt Wilkinson – 200 plates for regional fine diner Montalto, a winery and dining destination on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Wilkinson is “culinary consultant” there.
Buckingham sees Gordon’s artisanal approach as fitting today’s multi-sensory dining trend, which aims to engage all five senses. His approach is riding a “new [post-pandemic] luxury wave”, according to Buckingham, as well as pushing back against the “Amazonification of retail”.Again, it cuts both ways. Gordon says he loves seeing his mates do well: “Their venues are pumping, and my plates are a small part of it.
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