Pure casseroles
Working with casseroles is one of my favorite ways of cooking, simple, no fuss and all the flavors melt together. But it is also important to me that casseroles are beautiful. They help define the atmosphere at the table. Nothing like the hostess serving her tablemates from a beautiful casserole.
Pure by Pascale Naessens for Serax
The Pure oven dishes line consists of round and oval oven dishes in various sizes.
Serax is a Belgian family business, regularly Axel's mother walks around it, she is actually the founder of the company.
When I arrived there 13 years ago, Serax was not yet working so much with ceramists. Roos van de Velde was one of the first, a very good ceramist and a real artist. I have seen the company grow and in the meantime, Serax is working with top national and international ceramists/designers such as Fréderick Gautier, Antonie Sciortino, Anne Demeulemeester, Marie Michielssen ... and top culinary chefs such as Sergio Herman and Ottolenghi. I feel particularly honored in their company.
Serax has also become very important as an international player, they sell all over the world. As a result, I regularly get forwarded photos from Belgians abroad who let me know that they have dined on my ceramics in Bali, Maldives, China, Poland, ...
