About Us
We're Chris & Lauren Ritter, a husband and wife duo based in Nashville. After years of making stuff and being weird, we decided to launch a brand.
Picky Makers, Mindful Curators
We're some of the pickiest people we know and while some may find this annoying or say we need to lower our standards, we've turned it into a superpower!
In the Fall of 2020, we launched a collection of beautiful, useful goods on Etsy: Chris's pottery and my nature art prints. As time went on, we noticed our products shared a lot of style similarity and that's when we decided to launch a curated shop with stuff we both liked.
From handcrafted mugs wheel thrown in our Nashville apartment to woven coasters made in Oaxaca, Mexico to fair trade earrings made in Kenya, we search high and low for the best quality products so you can start swapping poor quality Amazon finds for the good stuff.
Sourcing items that are 100% sustainable, fair trade, eco-friendly, and handmade is *nearly* impossible, but we do our best to come as close as we can! We want you to own things you can feel good using.
How Something is Made
When your favorite coffee mug, the dreamy leather sofa on your Pinterest board, or (fill in the blank) is made, a few steps are involved...
- Location: where a product is made.
- Materials: what the product is made of.
- Steps: how the product is made.
- Maker: who made the product.
Chris focuses on where and how a product is made. He believes in bringing production back to America by supporting highly-skilled craftsmen and is a stickler for quality control, ensuring no one can use the word "cheap" when describing what we carry.
Lauren focuses on who makes each product and what a product is made of. She believes makers should be paid a living wage for their work, that child labor and trafficking of any kind shouldn't be tolerated, and that poor-quality materials must be avoided when possible.
