Traditional online shops buy in bulk, store it, and hope it sells before it goes out of fashion. We do the opposite — every order is placed with the maker only once you've bought it, so nothing is produced speculatively and nothing sits unsold in a container.
It's a little slower. It's also the only way we've found to keep quality and honesty in the same sentence.
Started as a side project selling one carpenter's olive-wood boards.
Grew slowly, adding workshops we'd actually visited or spoken with at length.
Opened a small studio office above the old print shop, still just the two of us.
Still turning down faster growth in favour of makers we trust.
Two of us, plus the makers we work with
Founder & sourcing
Spends most of her year visiting workshops in person before they join the shop.
Founder & operations
Runs logistics, customer care, and the returns line himself.
