In a Zoom interview with VogueSeth Rogen sat “rolling a just-rolled joint through his fingers.” He spoke of giving away some of his handmade vases to free up space in his closet for more.
Despite his role as Benny in Steven Spielberg’s Coming-of-age movie The Fabelmans and last year Introduction of the houseplantRogen seems most excited about his new hobby as a potter, and making ashtrays in particular.
“My journey with ceramics and with houseplants paralleled each other in a very beautiful way, it seemed like nobody had made a new one in the last 30 years,” said Rogen, adding that the quest for beautiful ashtrays for his own home he was compelled to become a serious potter. He soon began experimenting with ashtray designs and rolling trays, which became prototypes for some of Houseplant’s best sellers.
“I couldn’t be happier because the brand was really born out of what I was already doing.” During the pandemic, Rogen worked the clay in his home pottery studio. “Having my own kiln is like a real revelation in terms of learning and experimenting,” he said of the creative freedom that eventually led to his “gloopy” glazing technique, which recently emerged as one of them The coolest houseplant ashtrays.
Overcrowded closet equals raffle
Rogen has since accumulated a lot of his own work. In fact, he admits he has “a closet full of shit.”
Although he has given away many of his pieces to friends and charity auctions, Rogen is now starting Handcrafted by Seth in which four original vases are raffled off to four lucky winners via a raffle on indoorplant.com starts on Wednesday September 28th and runs until October 4th.
“I don’t feel like hoarding these things for myself,” he said of the tracks, which are named after characters from Point Break and Demolition Man, “it just seemed like a fun way to put them into the hands of the people.”
Rogen then shared With Fashion his creative process, his philosophy of life and why weed…
