Zinnia Vase

Beth Katz is the creative behind Mt. Washington Pottery, a Los Angeles-based ceramics brand where she produces useful, ornamental, and heirloom-quality ceramics completely by hand. Following the ancient tradition in pottery to name a studio after its location, Katz titled her studio after the historic Southern California neighborhood, Mt. Washington. She draws inspiration from modern Scandinavian design, traditional Japanese design, and the Southern California landscape.

Growing up in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon, Katz was first exposed to ceramics and design at a young age. After pursuing jobs in advertising, fashion design, makeup artistry, and eventually as the creative director of a national women's magazine, Katz turned her lifelong passion, ceramics, into her career. Her creative vision is to strike a balance between the beauty of artistic expression and practical utility, so she creates pottery that is both decorative and functional. Her work radiates graceful simplicity through the use of organic shapes, textures, and colors.