ANIMANA
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Animaná creates luxuriously soft textiles, knitwear, and accessories from 100% natural fibers including baby alpaca, cotton, linen, and vicuna. ...
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 ...
ATELIER DRIBA
Founded by Mohammed Messaoudi in 1993, Atelier Driba is a safe harbor for Tunisian artisans, where dozens of ceramicists, weavers, woodworkers, mosaicists, ...
ATUTO
A former Peace Corps volunteer from North Carolina, Holland Millis has worked with skilled craft-workers in Honduras for decades ...
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 ...
BOTANOPIA
Lise Lefebvre was raised in “a tiny village” near Paris but lives in the Netherlands, where she earned her master’s degree at the Design Academy Eindhoven. ...
BOB DINETZ
After discovering pottery while traveling in Japan, graphic designer, Bob Dinetz took to the pottery wheel and never looked back. ...
CALIFORNIA WHITE SAGE
California White Sage is a 40-acre ranch near San Diego where sage grows naturally. Owned and operated by Robin Taylor, the company’s fields sprawl along the coastal region of ...
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. ...
CUSTODIAN
Trained as a sculptor at Rice University, Brooklyn-based designer Erin Rouse came to see the formal potential of one of the humblest of objects in our homes: the broom. ...
EKHO DESIGN
Monia Rassâa — designer, design instructor, ceramicist, and founder of Tunisia's Ekho Design — didn't always want to be a designer: "When I was eight, my plan was to become a teacher...
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. ...
EVENFALL
Textiles expert Melissa Miller was working with the fashion brand Jungmaven when she was first introduced to the wonders of hemp, a sustainable fiber that’s so good for the earth that it was planted...
FLORAL SOCIETY
Founded by Sierra Steifman of New York boutique floral house Poppies & Posies, The Floral Society makes creative tools and objects to inspire the design enthusiast at home. ...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
HEART & SOIL
In 2016, propelled by a love of flowers and a passion to preserve the earth, Kelsey Ter Meer took the plunge and opened Heart & Soil in Newburgh, New York, a small town in the verdant Hudson valley. ...
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.
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. ...
LUCKY FISH
Jann Cheifitz entered the universe of the Edible Schoolyard at the behest of a friend. The organization, founded by Alice Waters, works to catalyze interest in food, nature, and sustainability among students...
MADE SOLID
West Coast native Peter Maxwell launched accessories brand Made Solid in 2014, and his process has endured throughout its lifespan. Each of his leather pieces — hand-stamped leather trays, hand-stitched tote bags...
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. ...
MICHELE QUAN
Michele Quan’s ceramics are rife with symbols and allusions, culled from Quan’s deep study into Buddhism, mythology, art, and the ideas of thinkers ranging from Shel Silverstein to Yoko Ono. ...
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. ...
MUNKH
Mongolia’s climate is famously challenging, but it happens to be the perfect environment for creating a singularly beautiful organic cashmere — the foundational material in Munkh’s pillows and throws....
MYRTH
“First I think about the characteristics of flowers or plants that the vase is meant to display,” says Abby Smallwood, who founded Myrth Ceramics in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband Eric. ...
NEWBURGH POTTERY
Owned and operated by David Moldover and his wife Jenny, The Newburgh Pottery is located in the town of Newburgh in the heart of the Hudson Valley. In addition to offering pottery classes for budding artists of all levels...
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. ...
NIC NEWCOMB
“Whenever I make things that will hold plants — either as a cache-pot or even a simple flower pot — I’m always thinking about how this vessel will support the bigger message — the flowers themselves,” says ceramicist and sculptor Nic Newcomb. ...
ONE LOVE HOLISTICS
The heartwood of Palo Santo (a.k.a. “holy wood”) — also known by its scientific name Bursera graveolens, is native to various regions throughout Central & South America, and has long been regarded as a sacred element in cleansing practices for centuries. ...
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. ...
SAIPUA
In 1997, the founder of Saipua, Susan Ryhanen, started crafting soap in her Brooklyn apartment. Not ordinary soap but hand-made, hand-cut soap made from 40-60% of cold-processed olive oil scented with pure essential oils. ...
SEJNANIA
In the hills of northern Tunisia, not far from the Mediterranean coastline, is Sejnane, a name now synonymous with both the place and an iconic style of pottery-making. Here, the traditional craft has passed from mother to daughter over the generations...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
TELLEFSEN
Alexis Tellefsen creates her small batch, wheel-thrown ceramics in her studio in Middletown, New York, 70 miles north of Manhattan in the Hudson Valley. ...
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. ...
TRACIE HERVY
Tracie Hervy’s austere ceramic cylinders are plainly forthright, all elegant lines and iconic shapes: In these pieces, she says, “all the superfluities have been stripped away to reveal their essence.” ...
TR HANDY
TR Handy is a textile house in Bordeaux France. Founded by designer, Marie Silanes, the company crafts home accessories from quality cotton, silk, and Bolivian llama and merino wool. ...
