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Kyoto-based Nishida Ceramics operates from a single kiln on the outskirts of Fushimi. Each piece takes three weeks. The waiting list is eighteen months. Worth every day of it.
Papier & Blei makes sixty notebooks per run. The covers are letterpress-printed on 400gsm Gmund cotton. They smell like something you'd find in a dead architect's studio, and that is entirely the point.
I found my favorite ceramicist in Issue 47.
Casa Branca ships from a village outside Guimarães. The linen is washed three times before it reaches you. The colors are vegetable-dyed. The founder's grandmother still approves every order before it ships.
Three of the brands I stock came from a single Dispatch Thursday.
Lykke & Strand makes twelve fragrances. Each one begins with a single material sourced from one farm. Bergamot No. 3 uses fruit from a Calabrian cooperative that harvests by hand. You can smell the decision.
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