23 stores · curated ORBIS register
Jordanian textiles and tableware share the showroom at AlBurgan Handicrafts, a family workshop in Jabal Amman established in 1989. Its handmade range also includes cushions and kaftans, bringing clothing alongside objects for the home. For lighting, Artemide makes the Tizio and Tolomeo lamps, designed respectively by Richard Sapper and Michele De Lucchi with Giancarlo Fassina. Ethiopia's Bahir Dar Textile Share Company produces cotton bed linens through an integrated mill that includes spinning and weaving departments.
Jabal Amman (Tala't Harb Street), Amman
Family-run since 1989, this Jabal Amman workshop makes handmade home decor drawn from Jordanian heritage, from cushions and tableware to bags and kaftans. Its showroom gathers the full range of textiles and gifts.
Best for Handmade Jordanian home decor, textiles, gifts
Milan / Online
Milan lighting company founded 1959 by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza, maker of Richard Sapper's 1972 Tizio lamp and Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina's 1986 Tolomeo, both held in MoMA and the Met's permanent collections.
Best for Tolomeo task lamps.
Artemide was founded in 1959 near Milan (in Pregnana Milanese) by Ernesto Gismondi, an aerospace engineer, and designer Sergio Mazza, a pairing that shaped the company's identity as a lighting maker solving structural and technical problems through design. Its two most recognized products are the Tizio desk lamp, designed by Richard Sapper in 1972, and the Tolomeo desk lamp, designed by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina in 1986 - both are held in the permanent design collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The company frames its design approach as treating illumination as both a technical and an emotional problem.
Bahir Dar, Amhara Region
An integrated cotton mill established in Bahir Dar in 1961, with spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and garment sections. It produces yarn, 100% cotton woven fabric, bed linens such as flat sheets, pillow cases and quilt covers, and garments.
Best for Ethiopian cotton home textiles and bed linens
Murano / Venice
The Murano furnace that put glass in the hands of contemporary artists — since 1989, painters and sculptors from around the world blow their visions with Berengo’s maestri.
Best for Contemporary art glass from Murano’s furnaces.
18 stores in 8 towns / Greenland
Born of town cooperatives dating to 1963 and united in 1991, Brugseni is the supermarket Greenlanders own themselves — some 30,000 members, more than half the country. Eighteen stores in eight towns, one house here, beside Pilersuisoq on the same shelf of Arctic supply lines.
Best for Greenland's own co-op, owned by its members
Paris
Guy Degrenne took over his father's forge in Sourdeval, Normandy in 1948 to make stainless steel cutlery, reportedly recovering steel from abandoned Battle of Normandy tank armor; a second plant followed in Vire in 1967, and the house remains a major French tableware maker.
Best for Stainless flatware and porcelain table settings from a Norman house since 1948
Degrenne's founding in 1948 centers on Guy Degrenne taking over his father's forge in Sourdeval, in the Manche department of Normandy, with the goal of making stainless steel cutlery accessible to ordinary households rather than a luxury reserved for the wealthy. The business began small, with around seven workers, but grew quickly on the back of an unusual sourcing story: the company is described as having recovered stainless steel from tank armor abandoned in the region after the Battle of Normandy, repurposing wartime material into everyday flatware. As the business industrialized, Guy Degrenne built a new production site in Vire, in Calvados, in 1967, and the company went on to become a leading name in French arts de la table. Degrenne's current production is based across sites in Vire and Limoges.
Brescia / Lombardy / Online
Italian lighting manufacturer founded 1962 in Merano by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina, soon joined by designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni; headquarters moved to Brescia in 1962-64, where the Arco floor lamp was created.
Best for The Arco and design lighting.
Flos was founded in 1962 by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina in Merano, Italy. The Castiglioni brothers, Achille and Pier Giacomo, along with designer Tobia Scarpa, joined shortly afterward. Under Sergio Gandini the company's headquarters moved to Brescia, near Milan, where Flos remains based today. The Castiglionis' Arco floor lamp, designed in 1962 - a long steel arm curving from a Carrara marble base to a chrome shade - became one of the defining pieces of postwar Italian design. Flos is now part of the Flos B&B Italia Group.
Arequipa
Inca Tops is part of Grupo Inca, an Arequipa-based group whose Pacomarca division breeds around 1,000 black alpacas producing a 100% natural black fiber marketed internationally as Black Alpaka. The group traces its founding to 1957, with divisions spanning alpaca and vicuña textiles, agro-industry and other business lines.
Best for Alpaca and vicuna fiber and garments
Multiple locations, Istanbul
Hüseyin Karaca opened a 30-person glass-decorating workshop in Istanbul's Süleymaniye district in 1973. The company later added porcelain, then stainless steel cookware, building today's Karaca home goods brand.
Best for A Süleymaniye glass workshop in 1973 grown into cookware and textiles worldwide.
Karaca began in 1973 as a 30-person glass-decorating workshop that Hüseyin Karaca opened in Istanbul's Süleymaniye district, applying patterns onto glassware rather than manufacturing homeware outright. The business expanded material by material over the following decades: porcelain production followed in the 1990s, then stainless steel cookware and cutlery in 1994, each addition building out a broader home-goods catalogue rather than replacing the original glass line.
The Karaca Home brand — the housewares, textiles and small-appliance line most shoppers now associate with the name — launched in 2012, formalizing what had by then become a diversified manufacturer, importer and retailer rather than a single-category glass workshop. Family members beyond Hüseyin Karaca joined the business as it grew, keeping ownership inside the Karaca family across the company's expansion.
From that single Süleymaniye workshop, the company has grown into one of Turkey's largest home-goods retailers, now operating stores across dozens of countries. The throughline from 1973 to today is incremental: each new product category — porcelain, steel, then Karaca Home's broader housewares — was added onto the last rather than replacing it.
Milan / Online
Milanese plastic-design revolution — Componibili, Louis Ghost, and transparent icons since 1949. Componibili launched square first then cylindrical at Salone 1967. Salone states they are in MoMA New York and Centre Pompidou permanent collections.
Best for Componibili storage and Ghost chairs.
Veneto / Online
Founded in 1976 by Eugenio Perazza in Motta di Livenza, Veneto; the name is Latin for 'more.' Its best-known piece, the Bombo stool, was designed by Stefano Giovannoni and launched in 1997.
Best for Design icons in polymer.
Magis was founded in 1976 by Eugenio Perazza in Motta di Livenza, then a small agricultural town in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. Perazza named the company after the Latin word for 'more,' reflecting his stated aim of using industrial production, experimentation with new materials, and collaboration with outside designers to make furniture that offered something beyond ordinary output. The company built its reputation working with a roster of designers rather than an in-house style, commissioning names including Stefano Giovannoni, whose Bombo stool — a height-adjustable stool with a rounded, colorful plastic seat launched in 1997 — became one of Magis's most recognized and most widely imitated designs. The company's catalog since has spanned chairs, tables, storage, and outdoor furniture built around the same combination of industrial manufacturing technique and design-forward form. Magis remains headquartered in the Veneto region under the direction of its founder's original vision of production as a testing ground for new ideas rather than a fixed house style.
Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona
Mango's Paseo de Gracia flagship is a Barcelona clothing store with ranges for women and men. A 2021 refurbishment introduced a Mediterranean-influenced interior across two floors, according to reporting on the reopening. The business began in Barcelona in 1984, although that first shop occupied a different address on the avenue.
Best for Mango women’s and men’s clothing in Barcelona
Altstadt
German mail-order-turned-retail chain founded 1987-89 by Thomas Hoof to sell durable, traditionally made goods; its Hamburg store, opened 2001, occupies the landmark 1920s Chilehaus in the Kontorviertel district.
Best for Traditional German tools, kitchenware, and household goods.
Manufactum was founded by Thomas Hoof, born 1948 in Munsterland, in the late 1980s as a mail-order business built around selling only goods judged durable, well-made, and built to last. The company grew from a one-person operation to roughly 300 employees before Hoof sold it to the Otto Group at the end of 2007. Its Hamburg location, opened in 2001, occupies part of the Chilehaus at Fischertwiete 2 - an early-1920s expressionist brick landmark - in the Kontorviertel, which sits within the city's official Altstadt quarter.
Helsinki, Finland
Finnish design house founded in Helsinki in 1951 by Viljo and Armi Ratia. Its best-known textile, the Unikko poppy print, was designed by Maija Isola in 1964 - reportedly in defiance of Ratia's own declaration that Marimekko would never print flowers.
Best for Bold prints, Finnish; Unikko poppy print; Striped Tasaraita
Marimekko was founded in Helsinki in 1951 by Viljo and Armi Ratia, with Armi Ratia steering the company's design direction toward bold, unconventional prints. The brand's best-known pattern, Unikko, was created in 1964 by textile designer Maija Isola - as an act of creative rebellion, since Ratia had publicly stated Marimekko would never become known for flower prints. Unikko went on to become one of the most recognizable prints in Nordic design history, still produced on heavyweight cotton printed in Helsinki.
Parte Vieja
A local gifts and homewares shop commissioning exclusive products made for the store. Established 1966.
Best for Exclusive store-commissioned gifts and homewares, a tradition since 1966
Baba, Beppu
Moriguchi is a second-generation Beppu workshop on Baba street whose madake baskets, sieves, bags and flower vases are made in the tradition that earned Beppu bamboo craft its 1979 national Traditional Craft designation. The family splits and weaves Oita-grown bamboo by hand, producing both utilitarian ware and contemporary decorative pieces.
Best for Traditional and contemporary bamboo basketry
Nantucket / United States
Handweaving in the same tradition since 1968, Nantucket Looms makes cashmere, mohair, alpaca and cotton throws, scarves and apparel in its island weaving studio. Its 51 Main Street shop and online store also offer home decor, table linens, baskets and island-inspired art.
Best for Handwoven textiles, weaving, home decor, throws
Mandaue City
Founded by Cathy and Pete Delantar in 1986, Nature's Legacy turns agroforestry debris and recycled paper into home decor through patented materials such as Naturecast and Nucast. Its showroom is in Mandaue City with the factory in Compostela, Cebu.
Best for Sustainable Cebu-made home decor
Lower High Street
Robert Welch set up his design studio beside Chipping Campden's Silk Mill in 1955, and the family firm still runs its only studio shop on the town's Lower High Street. Shelves carry its award-winning cutlery, kitchen knives and tableware, backed by more than 70 international design awards.
Best for Cutlery, kitchen knives, award-winning tableware
Robert Welch set up his drawing board in an 18th-century Cotswold-stone building beside Chipping Campden's Silk Mill in 1955, founding what became Robert Welch Designs Ltd. Nearly seven decades on, the company remains family-run and still keeps its only studio shop on the town's Lower High Street.
The firm built its name on stainless-steel cutlery, now produced across three main collections -- a 3.5mm range, a heavier 5.0mm range, and the Master Collection -- and expanded over the decades into kitchen knives, cookware, tabletop accessories and home fittings. That design output has been recognised with more than 70 international awards over the company's history.
The Chipping Campden shop shows the full current range in person: cutlery, kitchen knives and knife storage, cookware from frying pans to casserole pots, and tableware down to candlesticks and salt and pepper sets. Cutlery sets can also be made up to order there.
Yukinoshita, near Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura
Sansuido has hand-carved and lacquered Kamakura-bori tableware since 1980, near Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine. Its trays, bowls and tea implements in katsura and magnolia wood continue a technique tracing to 12th-century temple carvers.
Best for Hand-carved Kamakura-bori trays, bowls and matcha implements
Kamakura-bori dates to the 12th century, when Minamoto no Yoritomo established his shogunate in Kamakura and drew skilled Buddhist sculptors from across Japan to the new capital. Those carvers began making lacquered ritual implements and incense containers for the city's temples, and the style that resulted - fine relief carving under a muted, deepening lacquer finish - carries a clear imprint of Zen aesthetics rather than court decoration. Sansuido, founded in 1980 on the street leading to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine, works in that tradition today with its own in-house artisans, who hand-carve trays, bowls, plates, chopsticks and tea implements from katsura and magnolia wood before building up the surface in layered urushi lacquer. The shop's catalog runs from round, hexadecagonal, mokko-shaped and square trays through matcha containers and sake cups to smaller pieces like card trays and hand mirrors, and it takes custom orders and lacquer-repair work on pieces already in use - a craft explicitly designed to darken and deepen with handling rather than stay pristine. In recent years Sansuido has shown its work at trade exhibitions in Frankfurt, Paris and Dalian, part of a deliberate push to carry Kamakura-bori beyond Japan. For visitors, it's a working shop rather than a museum piece: artisan-made lacquerware, sold a few steps from the shrine approach that gives the neighborhood its name.
Paris / Online
Paris design gallery-shop that began in 1947 when Robert Sentou started selling his own woven straw chairs, later opening a Paris boutique and, in the 1980s, turning it into a design gallery with Roger Tallon and Roger Fatus; now led by Pierre Romanet.
Best for Colorful furniture, lighting, and playful French design objects
Sentou began in 1947 in the Périgord region of France, where Robert Sentou made and sold woven straw chairs. He later opened his first shop in Paris to sell his own furniture, and in the 1980s reworked the space into a design gallery and showroom with the designer Roger Tallon and the interior designer Roger Fatus. That shift set the direction the business has kept since: publishing and selecting furniture and objects that sit between contemporary art and everyday design, rather than functioning as a conventional furniture retailer. The gallery has since been taken over by Pierre Romanet, who continues its programme of editions and reissues. Its catalogue includes Roger Tallon's M400 spiral staircase, Isamu Noguchi's paper lamps, and Sentou's own editioned pieces such as the Endora curved mirrors, the Cryptogamme stool and the Bergerac collection — a mix of vintage design reissues and new commissions that has kept Sentou associated with a particular, colour-forward strand of postwar and contemporary French design across its Paris locations.
London / Chelsea
The Conran Shop's Sloane Square flagship presents contemporary furniture and lighting across three floors of a Georgian townhouse in Chelsea. Room settings combine established designs with pieces from its London studio as well as art and accessories for the home. The business began on Fulham Road in 1973, while the current store offers design consultations and collection of selected online purchases.
Best for Contemporary furniture and home design at Sloane Square
The Conran Shop occupies a Georgian townhouse at 16 Sloane Square, with three floors devoted to furniture and the objects used alongside it. Room settings show established designs together with newer pieces from the company's London studio. Artwork and murals form part of the interior. Lighting and home accessories allow smaller purchases alongside larger furnishing decisions.
Sir Terence Conran founded the business on Fulham Road in 1973. That opening belongs to the company's history, rather than the present townhouse, so shoppers planning a visit should use the Sloane Square address. The store sits close to Pavilion Road and its surrounding shops and cafés.
Design consultations are available at the flagship, and a separate trade service supports professional projects. Selected online products can also be collected there when their product pages show that option. Shoppers seeking a particular item can use the website's store-stock information or contact the branch before travelling. This is especially useful when comparing a large furnishing purchase with pieces displayed in the room settings.
Biot / Côte d’Azur / Online
Glassworks founded in 1956 in Biot by engineer-ceramist Eloi Monod, who turned the trapped-air flaw glassblowers usually avoid into the workshop's signature bubbled glass (verre bulle); holds France's living-heritage EPV label.
Best for Provençal bubble glass (verre bullé) blown in Biot since 1956
La Verrerie de Biot was founded in 1956 by Eloi Monod, an engineer and ceramist trained at the Ecole de Sevres who set out to revive traditional Provencal glassmaking. His central innovation was what became known as 'bubbled glass' (verre bulle): where trapped air bubbles are normally considered a defect in glassblowing, Monod worked out how to control the effect deliberately, turning it into the workshop's signature aesthetic. The technique marked what is generally described as a renewal of Provence's glassmaking tradition. Since 1956, Verrerie de Biot's master glassblowers have continued producing mouth-blown bubbled glass in the town of Biot, on the Cote d'Azur, and the workshop holds France's 'Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant' label.
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