Stories
The makers behind the items. Who they are, how they work, and why we carry them.
Nahe: the Japanese brand that packs light and stays out of the way
Nahe is a travel line by Hightide, a Japanese brand founded in Fukuoka in 1994. The name Hightide refers to...
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Fatboy: the Dutch brand that decided good design should last
Founded in the Netherlands in 2002, Fatboy started with a bean bag and a very clear point of view: good...
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Le Bon Shoppe: the good shop, started over dinner in an LA apartment
Le Bon Shoppe began in 2017 in a Los Angeles apartment, between friends who'd met working in the fashion industry....
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The Refill Shoppe: because reusing beats recycling
Michelle Stevens grew up on a sailboat for ten years, which is roughly how long it takes to notice how...
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Stuart Studio: a champagne bottle's second life, hand-cut in Lille
Stuart Studio is a small Lille workshop where design, ingenuity and a real concern for waste all sit at the...
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PLU75: the Paris plush you'll have to fight to get back
PLU75 makes plush characters designed in Paris - the 75 is the city's postal code, worn proudly - with one...
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Morihata: a couple building a bridge between Japanese craft and the rest of the world
Morihata was founded in 2005 by Yuka and Kaz Morihata, a wife-and-husband team who met as students at the Rhode...
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Jo & Nic's: the cloth books that crinkle like tiny newspapers
Jo & Nic's has been charming very small readers since 2018, with cloth books dreamed up and illustrated by Nicola...
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cut&make: a card and a gift, folded into one
Most cards say something and stop there. A cut&make card does a little more: it arrives flat in an envelope...
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BS Toys: the Dutch brand on a mission to get kids off the screen and into the wild
BS Toys started life as BuitenSpeel - Dutch for "outdoor play" - founded in Haarlem in 2006 by Marcel Schagen....
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Sisi, house of style: handmade mugs with something to say
Sisi, house of style is an Amsterdam-based ceramic brand by Slovenian designer Silvia Jerman, who works somewhere between Amsterdam and...
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Printworks: the Swedish joy of the analogue
Printworks was founded in Stockholm in 2017 by Annette and Patrik, who left their advertising careers after noticing something: the...
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Lost iN: city guides written by local chefs, designers, editors, gallerists.
Founded in Berlin in 2014, Lost iN started from a simple frustration with the way travel guides are usually written...
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