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Nobody Here Makes
Everything
. Everybody Here Makes
Something
Really Rather Well.
Selling Rather Well, If We're Honest.
Slightly awkward to mention, so we'll just leave them here.
REFILL + REUSE
Brand Spotlight: Kuishi.
Designed for circular living, refill, reuse, reduce. Made using thoughtfully selected materials with a focus on sustainability. Plastic-Free Packaging Reducing unnecessary plastic through considered packaging
BRAND SPOTLIGHT : KUISHI
Refillable dispensers for homes, hotels and offices. Beautiful. Rather good for the planet. Refill. Reuse. Rethink.
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THE ONE THING A ROOM CANNOT DO WITHOUT
SAY IT WITH SOFT FURNISHINGS
People Have Said Some Very Kind Things.
It feels a bit much to repeat them ourselves, so we've put them here and left the room.
Let customers speak for us
BRAND SPOTLIGHT
Vintage Electrical.
Steve spent twenty years as an electrician before deciding that what the world was short of was properly wired lampshades. He rescues original Coolicon and RLM shades in Norfolk, and makes new ones when the supply runs dry. The switches click the way switches used to. It matters more than you would think.
BRITISH BRAND · RESTORED ORIGINALS · SINCE 2015
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