For four weeks we were on site at the manufactory in Vietnam. Our producer and his team have craft skills and knowledge built on many years of working with porcelain. At the same time, the owner of the manufactory provides her roughly 80 employees with labour standards in the form of health and social insurance. Hierarchies in the company are flat, management and workers eat together, and men and women meet as equals. At 12 noon on the dot, the cook strikes the gong for the 90-minute shared lunch break; at 4 pm on the dot, after seven hours of work, everyone starts their scooters and rides home to their families.

Last but not least, the porcelain workers at our manufactory are paid significantly better than in other workshops. Fair wages and purchase prices also keep know-how within the company and counteract wage dumping and migration trends in the manufacturing sector.