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Not everything makes its way to the showroom in the same way. Some things we have been looking out for months, while others we discover by chance. Some travel to us by plane, others by sea. And sometimes we have to wait for our batch to be made and shipped. Here are a few connections between five of them.
Article contents
Merchant & Mills — Workwear book
Pallarès — magnetic knife stand
Joseph Marples — flat-head screwdriver
L'ALPHA Japan — titanium cup
In August Company — natural incense sticks
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About work
Workwear interests us mainly at the moment when it stops belonging only to work. A chore jacket, work trousers or an apron originated around a specific activity, but their cuts and details have long worked just as well outside it.
We have been living with Merchant & Mills for several years now through their scissors, needles, pins and other sewing-related things. Now the book Workwear has joined them. It is based on five classic patterns — work jackets, shirts, trousers, jackets and bags — and shows how naturally workwear can become part of an everyday wardrobe.
Without a box
A frequent topic around Pallarès knives is their packaging. More precisely, the fact that they have none. When you ask them about it, the answer is simple: they have never made any and never will. Over time, we have got used to it, even though it still seems to us that such beautiful knives deserve some kind of cover. Perhaps we are influenced by Japanese knives, where packaging is part of the whole culture around them. On the other hand, packaging is really an unnecessary thing, and not having it does no harm. In the end, both approaches make sense to us. What remains the same with both a Japanese and a Catalan knife, however, is the question of where to put it in the kitchen. The magnetic stand is Pallarès' answer.
Sheffield
The flat-head screwdriverby Joseph Marples looks almost exactly as you would expect an old woodworking tool to look. A beech handle, a brass ferrule and a forged carbon-steel blade. Joseph Marples has been making tools in Sheffield since 1840. What is especially interesting about this one is how little needed to be changed.
Titanium
L'ALPHA Japan is a slightly different case. It is a young Japanese brand, and titanium is essentially its world. We came across L'ALPHA through Japanese camping, which has been increasingly interesting to us lately. The things we already have from L'ALPHA have now been joined by a titanium cup with a folding handle, made in Tsubame-Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, one of Japan's best-known metalworking regions.
Titanium belongs to a somewhat different world than wood, brass or carbon steel. We associate it more with technology and materials whose properties are decisive — low weight, strength and resistance to corrosion. Perhaps that is why it can seem a little sterile at first glance. But when used, it quickly acquires its own character. Scratches and other traces of what it has experienced with you remain on its surface.
Something that will not stay
Not everything that finds its place in the showroom has to stay there. In August Company is a Prague studio. Their natural incense sticks, however, are handmade in Japan from a plant-based base, wood shavings and natural essential oils. One stick burns for approximately twenty-five minutes. That is essentially its entire life. It is lit, becomes part of the space for a while, and then disappears. All that remains is a little ash and a scent that lingers in the air for some time.
End of August
These are five of the new arrivals from August, along with a few connections that usually do not fit on a product page. These things would really meet side by side only here in our showroom. So we wanted to make a note of why we chose them in the first place.
