With increasing regularity, one item emerges in AD ’s home tours: a towering clay pot. In this Laguna Beach home , a pitted limestone vessel builds height and material depth in a marble-clad kitchen, while a Provençal confit pot holds court in this Maine kitchen . Cobie Smulders uses a terra-cotta enormity to punctuate an oak table that hosts a purported 27 guests in her Canadian home, and this Hudson Valley farmhouse uses Chinese ceramic as grounding decor.

But no homes are so possessed with pottery of the truly enormous variety as Jeremiah Brent and Nate Berkus , whose Portuguese farmhouse appears on the cover of our June issue.…