Independent Brands, Handpicked
Shop by purpose, by place, or simply by eye
We help you find the brands you'd never have found alone. Every one chosen by hand, for people who'd rather own one very good thing than five ordinary ones.
Selling Rather Well, If We're Honest.
Slightly awkward to mention, so we'll just leave them here.
Everything, Handpicked
Furniture, gifts, yoga, food, and rather a lot in between. All of it handpicked, none of it here by accident, and every last piece chosen by a person who thought you might rather like it.
REFILL + REUSE
Brand Spotlight: Kuishi.
Designed for circular living, refill, reuse, reduce. Made using thoughtfully selected materials with a focus on sustainability.
Refillable dispensers for homes, hotels and offices. Beautiful. Rather good for the planet. Refill. Reuse. Rethink
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Straight From The Maker To You
Each parcel comes from the person who made it, which is rather the point
Makers, Not Manufacturers
Small brands who know the people making their things by name
THE WALL IS THE BIGGEST THING IN THE ROOM
SAY IT WITH SOFT FURNISHINGS
THE ONE THING A ROOM CANNOT DO WITHOUT
Brand Spotlight: Vintage Electrical.
Steve spent twenty years as an electrician before concluding that what the world was truly short of was a properly wired lampshade. He rescues original Coolicon and RLM shades across Norfolk, and, when the supply runs dry, makes new ones himself. The switches click the way switches used to click, before everything went soft and silent. It matters rather more than you would think.
BRITISH BRAND · RESTORED ORIGINALS · SINCE 2015
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