We use a lot of off-white. Not the white of hospital walls or fresh snow — something warmer, slightly uncertain. The kind of white that seems like it couldn't quite commit. We love it.
Warm neutrals do something that pure colors can't: they make space for the object. They say look at the shape, look at the texture, look at the thing itself rather than insisting on their own presence. The object is the protagonist. The surface is just where it lives.
That said, we're not afraid of color. The blue-green glaze on the Vessel series exists because one of us was having a very specific feeling on a Tuesday and needed to put it somewhere. We think objects can hold feelings. We try to put good ones in.
The rule, if there is one: color should earn its place. It should mean something, or do something, or at minimum be very funny.