A second life for good things

Most of what we sell was made by someone else — we make a few pieces here, by hand and in small numbers, and choose the rest. A fair part of what we choose is carefully chosen surplus — stock that was over-produced, discontinued, or displaced when a range changed. Never damaged, expired, returned or defective: perfectly good pieces, made with real materials, that were headed for clearance or disposal.

We find those and give them somewhere better to go. It is part of what we do rather than the whole of it, and we cannot yet tell you what proportion — only that it is real, and that we would rather say that than round it up.

We re-use and recycle packaging. Our vessels are chosen to be kept — a rigid box that holds something afterwards, a basket that keeps its usefulness — and where packaging can be left out altogether, we leave it out.

We are not yet where we want to be on transit packaging. That is the next thing we are working on.

We hold no environmental certification, and we won't display a badge we haven't earned. We don't describe ourselves as carbon neutral, plastic free or zero waste, because we are none of those things yet.

What we can say is specific: we buy stock that already exists wherever we can, we choose packaging meant to be kept, and we would rather tell you what we have not done than imply we have done it.

Formalising our surplus sourcing so we can report what proportion of each Curated Collection it represents. Reducing transit packaging further. Publishing the makers we buy from directly, once those relationships are settled enough to name.

We will update this page as that work progresses, and only with things we have actually done.