MEET OUR MAKERS + MUSES

We've built a global community of like-minded partners who do good through the environmentally responsible pieces they craft, including small batch makers who have a passion for social change and artisan communities that help support local development.

AQUAVIREO

Madeleine Slater founded AquaVireo 15 years ago, when her career as a kitchen designer, with its intensive use of digital tools like CAD, was interrupted ...

ASANO MOKKOUSHO

Asano Mokkousho crafts peerless gardening tools in Japan’s Tsubame-Sanjo region, an area famous for the quality of its metalsmithing. ...

ATELIER DRIBA

Founded by Mohammed Messaoudi in 1993, Atelier Driba is a safe harbor for Tunisian artisans, where dozens of ceramicists, weavers, woodworkers, mosaicists, ...

BETSY BAUER STUDIO

For artist Betsy Bauer, creating her stones wrapped in Japanese-style knots has become an extension of her Zen Buddhism practice. ...

BLACKSAW

During a motorcycle trip into the Andean mountain range in South America, Steph and Kyle Taylor discovered the region’s beautiful alpaca fiber and hatched the idea ...

BLOMUS

Based in Sundern, Germany, Blomus embodies over a century of precision, innovation, and refined simplicity, shaped by expert manufacturing and thoughtful collaborations with leading contemporary designers. ...

CARIBBEAN CRAFT

Caribbean Craft is a woman-owned company in Haiti that has a strong commitment to social responsibility and the environment. ...

CATHERINE RISING

Catherine Rising was founded by Catherine Constanza and is based in Rochester, New York. Her small company creates beautiful original smudge stick bundles and natural apothecary products. ...

DBO HOME

Not long ago, husband-and-wife team Daniel Oates and Dana Brandwein led typically atypical New York City careers: Oates was a well-known sculptor, while Brandwein spent 20 years in the record industry, working alongside artists like AC/DC, Metallica, and Björk. ...

ERIC BONNIN

Ceramicist Eric Bonnin has lived in New York City for 25 years, but his singular bird pieces, made in black stoneware, recall his childhood in France — as well as some other influences. ...

EVANGELINE

When his world travels as a textile industry professional exposed him to the beauty and craft of handmade textiles, Evangeline founder Ben Ray had no choice but to return home with his family to Portland and bring them to the world. ...

FORAGER CO.

Located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Forager Co. designs and produces utilitarian products that incorporate foraged vintage and historic textiles, old stock denim, and salvaged leather. ...

FREDERIC ALCANTARA

Frederic Alcantara has championed the work of artisans in countries including Morocco, Mali, Egypt, Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa for decades, and his knowledge of these marketplaces is unparalleled. ...

FREDERICKS & MAE

Fredericks & Mae is helmed by Gabriel Fredericks Cohen and Giovi Mae Signorile. The two met through a shared love of materials. Fredericks & Mae started in the piles of feathers, thread, gold and paper that filled their first studio in 2007. ...

GRANDMONT STREET

“Five years ago, I got a divorce, and I ended up in a little community ceramics class — you know, the sort of things where it’s, like,  ‘Everybody gather round, let’s make a casserole!’” says Julia Finlayson...

GRÄNSFORS BRUK AB

For over a century, Gränsfors Bruk AB has been handcrafting exceptional axes, blending time-honored techniques with a deep respect for nature and craftsmanship. Nestled in the Swedish village of Gränsfors, each axe is forged by skilled blacksmiths...

GREENTREE HOME

Based in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in New York State, Greentree Home is a small company that designs and produces handmade candles exclusively in beeswax. ...

HANGAI MOUNTAIN TEXTILES

Hangai Mountain Textiles, founded in 2017, was born from a passion for Mongolia’s rich heritage and the natural beauty of Colorado. After years of working in Mongolia, the founders discovered the beauty...

HAWS

Founded in 1886 by inventor John Haws in Clapton, London, Haws is the world’s oldest watering can company and a celebrated name in British horticulture. What began as one man’s quest to water vanilla plants...

HOUSE OF GOOD

House of Good transpired when two kindred spirits, Jennifer Olsen and Dara Dunn, with particularly parallel lives, crossed paths and realized that they shared the same dream: to surround themselves with GOOD things. Things that are artful, joyful and purposeful. ...

ILEX STUDIO

London-based, Ilex Studio is the brainchild of Ed Spurr and Amy Hall Browne  who spent lots of time perfecting the optimum design, shape and performance of their stunning vases. ...

ITZA WOOD

Itza Wood is led by a mother-and-daughter team: Philadelphia native Suzanne Babarczy and her daughter Eliza, who spent much of her childhood in Guatemala, where Suzanne founded The Jungle School with her husband Mario in a remote corner...

JUDY JACKSON

For Judy Jackson, her one true material was, and remains, stoneware. “I started with stoneware and never detoured,” she says. “I liked its durability, I liked the other work I saw that was stoneware, I liked the high-fire glazes available to me. ...

LA CASA

La Casa is Guatemala’s largest exporter of handmade goods, employing up to 1,000 people during the year — working as part of a family collective, as independent artisans or as a member of a cooperative.

LARCH WOOD CANADA

Larch Wood pieces started with the tree—and then, the grain. The challenge, says the team at their Cape Breton workshop, is to craft each board in a way that highlights the bold patterns, natural golden hues, and renowned durability of larch. ...

LIBECO

Since establishing the family’s first weaving mill in the small Belgian town of Meulebeke over 160 years ago, 5 generations of Libeerts have been faithfully and skillfully producing beautiful, durable, top quality Belgian Linen from the extra-long fibers of Flemish flax. ...

LBE DESIGN

Intrepid travelers and design aficionados, LBE Design’s co-founders Veronica and Jon Denne, challenged themselves to buck the status quo in 2018 and left their corporate careers to set out to create a company built on principles they believed in. ...

MARCIE MCGOLDRICK

“You have to be a bit of a glutton for punishment with ceramics,” says Marcie McGoldrick, whose utility crock and footed bowls, both in white porcelain, exemplify minimalist elegance. ...

MESO GOODS

Meso Goods is dedicated to creating beautifully crafted home décor that seamlessly blends tradition with modern design. Working closely with skilled artisans across Latin America, each piece is a reflection of heritage, artistry, and sustainability.

MIZAR & ALCOR

Mizar & Alcor was founded by Efe Serio, Emel Serio & Daniel Shavit in the summer of 2016 on Turkey's Turquoise coast to represent the union of East and West as well as the integration of tradition into modern life. ...

MOLT STUDIO

Molt Studio is a Guatemalan design studio founded by designer Marissa Galvez Mont. The multi-disciplinary studio of artisans and designers mixes sustainable materials and innovative production processes to craft everything from handmade rugs...

MORIHATA

Kaz and Yuka Morihata met while undergraduates at the Rhode Island School of Design, while Yuka pursuing a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing, and Kaz was in the industrial design department. ...

NATURES COLLECTION

At Natures Collection, every piece begins with a story—one rooted in nature, craftsmanship, and Scandinavian values. Made in Denmark, their products are thoughtfully designed with a deep respect for the environment and a passion for lasting quality.

NGWENYA

For decades Ngwenya Glass has been giving used glass new life by recycling and transforming it into refined products including tableware, drinking glasses, vases, and objects. ...

NIWAKI

Niwaki founder Jake Hobson is a leading pruning specialist who studied pruning, tree-training, and rootballing at Furukawa Teijuen nursery in Osaka, Japan.

PATRIAE

“I remember doing little crochet projects when I was five, starting to sew at 6, and always playing with the antique textiles in my grandparents’ houses in Slovakia,” says Barbara Pisch, part of a family of expert tailors and garmentos going back generations. ...

PIETRO VENTURINI

Founded in the 1970s by Pietro and his father Francesco, the farm remains family-run and dedicated to producing one of the country’s finest extra virgin olive oil using traditional methods that honor both place and heritage.

RB73

RB73 pieces start with fire, and then, the gathering it creates. The challenge, says the team at their Netherlands workshop, is to craft each outdoor fireplace in a way that transforms any terrace into a place where people naturally come together. ...

SHELDON CERAMICS

Ceramicist Peter Sheldon works and lives in East Los Angeles, but his pieces — like hand-thrown gently pink terracotta clay vases and minimal stoneware pieces in a glazed charcoal shade — recall his childhood in Vermont. ...

SIEN + CO

Alex Gibson was looking for an alternative to her work as an event planner in Silicon Valley when she decamped for Nepal with her four-year-old daughter. ...

SIROCCO LIVING

While the artisanal traditions behind their products extend back through the generations, the story of Sirocco begins in some ways 10 years ago, when Danish designer Ellen Raven, her husband Henrik, and Ellen’s cousin, Malou Lenskjold visited a famed resort in Egypt. ...

SKAGERAK

Deeply rooted in Scandinavian heritage and craftsmanship Skagerak is a family-owned company that produces quality Danish furniture designed to last for generations. ...

SOIL TO STUDIO

Soil to Studio is a Brooklyn based textile design studio founded by Swati Bansal in 2019. Born and raised in Udaipur, India, Swati was exposed to various crafts by her mother and grandmother and spent vacations drawing, painting, and embroidering bedspreads. ...

STAR BRIGHT FARM

Founded by husband-and-wife team, Mark Elmore and Helen Norman, Star Bright Farm is as much a concept and driving philosophy as it is a physical place. ...

STUDIOLOGY

Even though her background is in furniture design, Rosma Gutierrez of Studiology finds herself increasingly drawn to creating beautiful containers to fill her home with live plants and flowers.

SYZYGY

Syzygy pieces begin with an idea — and then, a sketch. The battle, says designer Ankit Kumar, is for the brand’s team of ceramicists in New Delhi to produce a real-world piece that comes as close as possible to achieving that original vision. ...

TENNEN

While Sarah Swartz Wessel’s Tennen Studio works across disciplines — designing buildings, landscapes, spaces, furniture and objects — its ethos is rendered full in one of the agency’s smallest objects: its beautifully minimal and highly functional incense burners. ...

TREKO

Founded in 2016 by Chilean native Catalina Marin, Treko (meaning ‘yarn of wool’ in the native Chilean dialect) is dedicated to preserving the textile traditions of the artisans of Chiloe island and to sharing the creations of these master artisans with the world. ...

TURNCO WOOD GOODS

Founded by a young family who traded Vancouver BC for a simpler, more pastoral life on Whidbey Island, WA, Turnco is a small batch manufacturing company that makes simple functional pieces for the home using natural elements like glass and locally sourced wood. ...

WAX ATELIER

Lola Lely and Yesenia Thibault-Picazo chose a perhaps unexpected spot to explore their passion for luxury products made with wax, like their signature hand-twisted candles, elegant tapers, waxed linen food wraps, and more...