Seven materials. No secrets.

Our oak comes from FSC-certified forests in Jutland, felled in winter when the sap is low and the grain is tight. We air-dry every board for a full year before it meets a machine, then finish it with a hard-wax oil you can repair at home. No plastic sheen, no orange tint — just wood that gets better every time someone puts a mug down without a coaster.

Ash is the athlete of hardwoods: light, flexible and almost impossible to snap. We steam it at 100°C, clamp it around oak forms and leave it overnight to remember its new shape. It’s how the Stub Stool gets its footring and the Rung Shelf gets its rungs — one piece, no joints, no wobble.

A family workshop outside Brescia laser-cuts, folds and welds every steel part we use. The powder coat is baked on at 200°C in our own palette — Oxblood, Cobalt, Butter, Moss and Tomato — so a table leg and a lamp base from different years still match exactly.

Woven by a 140-year-old mill in West Yorkshire, our bouclé is 82% new wool with a nylon core that keeps the loops from pilling. It’s rated for 60,000 rubs on the Martindale test, which is furniture-speak for ‘survives children, dogs and the friend who always sits on the arm’.

Travertine forms where hot springs meet limestone, which is why every slab is pocked with tiny caves. Ours is quarried near Tivoli, honed to a soft matte and filled with a matching resin so crumbs have nowhere to hide. No two tops are the same; we photograph yours before it ships.

Each shade is blown by hand in a glassworks that has been running since 1883. A layer of opal glass is sandwiched between two layers of clear, which diffuses the light so evenly you can look straight at it without seeing spots. It takes eleven minutes and one very steady pair of lungs.

Our objects are thrown on the wheel in Stoke-on-Trent and fired to 1,260°C, which makes the clay dense enough to hold water without a liner. The glazes are mixed in small batches, so expect a little variation in tone — that’s the potter’s fingerprint, not a factory fault.