Learn More About Our Favourite Brands
We've treasured items from each of these brands in our own home, and we love that they all share our family's values.
HVID
HVID is a Belgian soft knitwear brand offering long lasting goods for your little ones.
Their timeless designs are made to use, last and pass down through the generations. They are made in a knitting factory, a small family business in Belgium. And all items are finished in their home studio.
Jantien Baas
Jantien Baas graduated in 2005 from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague as a textile designer. Since then she has developed her design skills in a variety of projects. She was a co-founder of the brand Tas-ka and, since 2018, started her own independent design studio, Studio Jantien Baas.
Main Sauvage
Created in 2015 by architects Cécile Pinoteau and Julien Gippet, Main Sauvage is a French-based company that offers fun and unique soft toys for children ranging all ages. Made from alpaca wool, Main Sauvage toys are knitted and stuffed by hand in a Bolivian fair-trade cooperative and are entirely eco-friendly. Safe for baby and safe for the environment
Leo Leo Copenhagen
Leo Leo is a family brand based on play and creativity. The luxurious and timeless designs for babies and children are created with the philosophy that there are no wrong ideas when you play, only great ambition and imagination. The organic collection is designed in a dreamy, tonal colour palette with the aim to give a calm and harmonised effect on their surroundings.
Disana
Disana creates wonderful, eco-friendly knitted clothing, made from organic merino wool in Germany. We love the boiled wool jackets and overalls – warm, lightweight and dirt-resistant – and matching leggings and gloves, all in rich, warm colours.
Plan Toys
Plan Toys are doing their business the ‘sustainable way’ to create imaginative, educational and colourful toys. All the while, showing kids (and parents) that going green can be just as fun!
Stockmar
For nearly 100 years, the name Stockmar has stood for the highest caliber of art supplies. Stockmar believes that quality includes the aspiration to create artistic spaces which have a positive impact on individual development. They approach and maintain quality through the careful selection of raw materials, first-class processing and excellent color, paint and modeling properties.
Baggu
Founded in 2007, Baggu set out to create a reusable bag that was as functional as it was adorable. Today their goal is to make every bag you need for your every day life. They have stuck with their mission of creating useful products that are made with you and the planet in mind. BAGGU is manufactured ethically and environmentally responsibly in China.
Flamingo Estate
Nestled high atop the hills of Los Angeles, Flamingo Estate is a beauty and wellness brand that celebrates the lushness of California. Operating out of the palatial property of its namesake, the brand produces a variety of luxury products, including a selection of all-natural candles and a collection of recipes to nourish both body and soul. The brand takes inspiration from its rich surroundings to craft an assortment of evocative scents ranging from Italian rosemary to seaside sage
Kikkerland
Functionality and creativity are the two criteria given to designers all over the world who are put in charge of reinventing daily objects for Kikkerland.
Engel Natur
Engel Natur is one of the original champions of untreated organic merino wool clothes. The wool comes from Merino sheep kept in their natural environment, organically farmed and therefore living a healthy and stress-free life. The usage of pesticides is forbidden both on pastures and on animals. All of Engel’s products are organic (GOTS certfied) and produced in Germany. All thedyestuffs used are free from heavy metals and free from harmful AZO-dyes.
Iris Hantverk
Iris Hantverk's vision is to revive the traditional brush binding profession. By making functional products with good design combined with the quality of natural materials and the craftsmen's solid technique.
Everyday Oil
Skin care for the ages. This is a new kind of product, but also a very old kind of product. Using the absolute best organic and wild-harvested botanical oils, Everyday Oil is uniquely balancing, hydrating, cleansing and nourishing. One little bottle of goodness for all of your needs.
Egmont Toys
Egmont Toys, Belgian designer and manufacturer since 1994, proposes a large range of products, ranging from wooden toys to toys in metal, wickerwork, textile, soft toys, as well as decorative objects for children from 0 to 10 years and more. Play value and the educational character of a toy is an important aspect in the development of their toys.
La Belle Excuse
Proud of his origins, Aristo Stavropoulos is the producer of LA BELLE EXCUSE. His and his family’s olive groves are located in Chora in the Triphylia region south of Peloponnese, a region that has been valued over millennia for its exceptional olives and oil. Even as a child, Aristo helped cultivate the family olive grove. Driven by a taste for adventure, he left his native village in his early twenties and settled in Quebec.
Polka Dot Club
Polka Dot Club creates handmade heirloom toys using natural materials and century-old techniques. Founded by second-generation teddy bear maker Jen Murphy, each piece blends vintage craftsmanship with modern charm.
Living Libations
Living Libations is a Canadian brand offering organic skincare and dental care made with pure essential oils and wildcrafted botanicals. Founded by Nadine Artemis, the brand focuses on holistic, synthetic-free self-care.
Maileg
Maileg (pronounced My'lye) is a brand of charming Danish- designed toys created to inspire our children’s favourite playtime stories. By bringing storybook whimsy to everyday moments, Maileg toys help children explore the pure and simple wonder of imagination.
Hillery Sproatt
Driven by her desire to make fine art functional and with a deep appreciation for craft and design, Hillery Sproatt translates her paintings into textiles. Inspired by Japanese, Scandinavian, and Eastern European design, Hillery's organic shapes, whimsical landscapes, and childlike creatures draw connections between home and nature.
Vilac
For more than a century. Vilac has created unique and timeless wooden toys. The French brand masterfully combines its long-established savoir-faire with its passion for crafting durable, wooden children’s toys. From ride-on and pull-along toys to musical instruments and wooden fruit and veggies, the collections from Vilac always inspire.
Rylee & Cru
A children’s line founded by illustrator Kelli Murray and inspired by her own little ones. Rylee and Cru merge art and imagination, offering unique and artistic clothing for the modern child. The collection consists of quality basics that are each garment dyed, giving them a soft vintage feel right out of the box. The shapes are comfortable and the fabrics are soft, making dressing easy for baby and mama.
Konges Sløjd
Konges Sløjd was founded in 2014 in Copenhagen. They stand for honest quality, functionality and simplicity. They've created a simple, Scandinavian, stylish and, not least, quality-conscious universe for those most dear to us: Our Children. Their design philosophy is to make tasteful children’s interior design and items that bring the little ones joy.
Areaware
Areaware takes the everyday and makes it unusual. This Williamsburg, Brooklyn-based company creates functional objects with a thoughtful twist. Their goal: inspire an emotional response - and they get there with poetic products that have a subtle sense of humor. The brand also serves as a forum for young and local talent, fostering a strong voice for American design.
Oyoy
OYOY was founded in Denmark in 2012 by Danish designer Lotte Fynboe. The designs are classic, functional and long lasting with unique details and alluring color combinations. Influenced by traditional Danish design, the products are redesigns of childhood memories. Based on these memories unique products are created focusing on form and shape meeting functionality.
Liilu
Based in Germany, Liilu creates timeless, sustainable children's clothing made from organic muslin - pure and simple like childhood should be. All clothes are made in Portugal with minimalistic designs and generous sizing to enable freedom of movement. With soft colors, subtle textures and versatility, this brand has become one of our very favorites.
Kitpas
Kitpas is Japan's leading manufacturer of innovative, eco-friendly art materials since 1937. Including Kitpas eco-friendly chalks made using recycled scallop shells, and multi-surface, silky smooth Kitpas art crayons. Let your creativity flow with Kitpas!
Holztiger
Step into the beautiful, hand-crafted world of Holztiger, where each wooden figure is as unique as the child playing with it. These figures have been creatively designed, hand-crafted, hand-painted and built to last. Build your own Holztiger collection, add a dash of imagination and watch them come to life in your hands.
Erzi
Learn through play with Erzi toys, expertly crafted in Germany from sustainably sourced wood. These durable, high-quality wooden toys—from play food to educational games—are perfect for early learning and developing both body and mind.
Tiny Cottons
Tiny Cottons, founded in Barcelona in 2012, makes durable, ethical children’s clothing with playful, gender-neutral designs. Inspired by travel and Catalan roots, they use premium materials like pima cotton and merino wool for bold, lasting collections.
Bobo Choses
Bobo Choses is a colorful collection of sustainable unisex clothing made with a focus on the environment and people, to delight kids and adults alike! A personal favourite of ours that passes every type of play imaginable!
Wooden Story
Inspired by their grandfather's love for the forest, Gosia and Wiesiek Borowy (which means woods spirit in slavic mythology) created a universe of toys inspired by nature and kids' happiness.
Londji
Originally from Barcelona, Londji takes classic concepts of games and toys and brings them up to date with imagination, play, design, ecology, sharing and authenticity.
Moulin Roty
Moulin Roty is a cooperative founded on the values of sharing, solidarity and respect. Their toys have a vintage feel with a modern twist, in order to appeal to children while allowing parents and grandparents to rediscover something of their childhood. Moulin Roty has been creating stories and adventures since 1972.
Fairechild
Fairechild, founded by mother Tabitha Osler, creates transparent, waterproof garments that let kids play outdoors in any weather, promoting connection with the natural world and sustainable change in fashion.
Fog Linen
While searching for affordable linen bedding for everyday use, Yumiko Sekine visited Lithuania and started a partnership with local producers. From her designs combined with the craftsmanship of these producers, Fog Linen Work was born, and remains a leading company creating simple and natural products for everyday life.
The Wandering Workshop
The Wandering Workshop is a fresh toy brand with an intrinsic poetic quality in its designs. Its toys wander carefreely somewhere between the earth, the sea and the sky and invite the child to invent the play. With a focus on beauty as an integrative part of children's everyday experience, their design is minimalistic, yet playful.
Fanny and Alexander
Fanny & Alexander is an Argentinian brand crafting traditional wooden toys that inspire imagination. Made locally by artisans, their beautifully designed toys offer a tech-free play experience favoured by Aprikose.
Olli Ella
Olli Ella, founded in London in 2009 by sisters Chloe and Olivia Brookman, creates playful, beautifully made nursery furniture, bedding, and toys. Inspired by childhood and designed with nostalgia and modern style, their sustainable collection delights both parents and kids.
Moon Picnic
Moon Picnic is a small California-based brand creating fun, original designs to inspire a magical and nurturing childhood.
Ouistitine
Ouistitine is a small Montreal company that slowly makes entirely by hand stuffed animals, dolls, toys, and other accessories from reused natural fibers (wool, leather, fur, linen, cotton). So she's totally eco friendly, natural, ethical and local.
Goki
Founded 36 years ago, Gollnest & Kiesel Goki is Europe's most innovative wooden toy manufacturer and the largest toy company in northern Germany. Many of their toys are award winners and are made with a significant portion of hand-work.
Münder
The German Münder-Email is one of the very few remaining email workshops in Germany and was founded in 1980. In 1989/1990, a production-related collaboration was concluded with an enamel factory in Eastern Europe. Münder Email household items are characterized by sustainability and longevity.
Earthen Ceramics
Our collection of ceramics is handmade by our team of two women in Oakland, CA with the intention of celebrating everyday rituals. Each piece is made of durable stoneware, and intended for everyday use in the modern home.
Copito
Copito is a project by Clara Infante, a natural dyer and multidisciplinary maker and artist based near Barcelona, Spain. Here, you can shop her explorations with plant and earth pigments, often manifested through her sculptural wax creations.
Bink
Bink is a family-owned business built around a simple idea: to create high-quality, reliable drink-wares that fit seamlessly into your everyday life.
Bembien
Bembien is an accessories and lifestyle brand rooted in timeless design and artisan craftsmanship. Each Bembien piece is made by hand in small, considered batches using techniques passed down through generations.
Sirius Glassworks
Sirius Glassworks is one of Canada’s longest-running art-glass studios, handblowing glass since 1976. Led by master glassmaker Peter Gudrunas and his daughter Iris, they blend ancient techniques with modern design.
Ellen Hayward Ceramics
Ellen Hayward is a Whitstable-based ceramicist with a background in textile design. She creates bold, graphic pieces using hand-thrown forms, slip casting, and hand-applied decoration, giving each piece a unique character.
Incausa
Incausa is a social enterprise that partners with indigenous artisans in Brazil and Peru, returning 100% of wholesale proceeds to support their communities. Founded in 2012, it blends handcrafted goods like incense and soaps with a mission of cultural preservation and sustainable trade.
Studio Roof
Studio Roof creates colourful designs that you assemble yourself: from wall pieces and standing sculptures to sustainable flower bouquets. What begins as a creative moment transforms into a lasting design object – perfect for any space and any age. A gift to make others – and yourself – happy.
Ivo Angel
Ivo Angel is an online store based in Cortona Tuscany which offers Italian handmade tableware splatter ware in traditional shapes used in italian kitchens. A classic decor to fresh new colors keeping minimal, functional shapes. Italian culinary vintage inspired signs, rare vintage objects for a unique home decor.
Xenia Taler
Modern, eco-friendly bamboo-melamine tableware—lightweight, dishwasher safe, and perfect for families, picnics, or patios. Designed in Canada with colorful patterns to choose from.
Fay Andrada
Designer Fay Andrada founded her NYC-based brand in 2010. A graphic designer by training, she discovered metalwork in Portland after studying in New York, Paris, and London. Her heritage blends Filipino and Finnish roots.
Roam Studio
Roam, founded in 2018 by Natasha Garrett, creates timeless, durable clothing inspired by curated vintage finds, designed as lasting wardrobe staples.
L.F.Markey
LF Markey is a London-based brand known for its minimalist, artisanal approach to fashion. Founded by Lisa Markey, the label focuses on handcrafted, timeless pieces made with premium fabrics and expert tailoring, blending traditional techniques with contemporary design.
Meadows
Meadows is a sustainable fashion brand that emphasizes eco-friendly materials and ethical production. It offers versatile, comfortable clothing designed to last, combining modern style with responsible craftsmanship.
Eva Masaki
Eva Masaki is a boutique eyewear brand known for handmade, limited-edition frames blending timeless design with Japanese-inspired craftsmanship.
Either/Or
either/or offers minimalist, versatile clothing designed for everyday comfort and style. Crafted with quality materials, their timeless pieces easily fit into any wardrobe, perfect for those who value simplicity and durability.
Demylee
Demylee is a New York-based brand founded by Demy Lee, offering timeless, versatile knitwear and essentials. Known for clean lines, luxurious materials, and thoughtful details, Demylee blends understated elegance with modern style for lasting wardrobe staples.
Rita Row
Rita Row is an ethical fashion brand from Spain, blending timeless design with sustainable practices. Known for clean lines and quality craftsmanship, their collections use natural and recycled materials made under fair, responsible conditions.
Ali Golden
Ali Golden is a woman-owned and operated clothing brand based in California. Since 2012, designer Ali Golden has been on a mission to make sustainable fashion more accessible.
Counterpart
Counterpart’sThe Chargeris a sleek, retractable wall charger with a built-in USB-C cable, designed to eliminate cable clutter. Compact and stylish, it’s perfect for travel and everyday use.
BlaBla Kids
Blabla Kids offers soft, hand-knitted dolls made from natural fibers. Committed to sustainability and fair trade, each eco-friendly toy helps plant a tree through One Tree Planted®.
Djeco
Djeco is a French toy brand founded in 1954, known for artistic, educational toys that spark creativity. With eco-friendly materials and collaborations with artists, Djeco offers unique, high-quality products worldwide.
Martina Thornhill Ceramics
Martina is a self taught ceramic artist based in Portland, Oregon.
Repose AMS
Repose AMS is an Amsterdam-based brand creating sustainable, stylish kidswear with a timeless, modern aesthetic and a focus on comfort and quality.
Merge
Merge creates thoughtfully designed apparel, home goods, and self-care items using sustainable materials—celebrating beauty, mindfulness, and everyday rituals.
Kiko + GG
kiko+ & gg* is a Japanese brand crafting eco-friendly, minimalist wooden toys designed to spark creativity and last for years.
Grech & Co.
kiko+ & gg* is a Japanese brand crafting eco-friendly, minimalist wooden toys designed to spark creativity and last for years.
Caron Callahan
Caron Callahan is a women’s fashion brand known for timeless, functional, and feminine clothing that blends practicality with subtle style.
Lisbeth
Lisbeth is a Canadian jewelry brand offering minimalist, timeless pieces handcrafted in Toronto from quality materials like 14k gold fill and sterling silver.
Grapat
Grapat is a family-run brand from Spain creating beautiful, sustainable wooden toys designed for open-ended, imaginative play. Inspired by Waldorf and Montessori principles, each piece is handmade using natural materials and non-toxic dyes, encouraging children to explore, create, and learn at their own pace.
Corvus
Corvus is a German brand known for real, child-sized tools that encourage hands-on creativity, learning, and craftsmanship. Their Kids at Work range helps kids safely explore building and DIY through high-quality, functional tools made just for them.
Pampshade
Unique hand-made lamps created using artisanal breadand preserved with an anti-bacterial coating
Ash Posy
Ash Posy is an Ottawa-based organic skincare brand creating high-quality, minimalist products with locally sourced, plant-based ingredients. We prioritize sustainability with eco-friendly packaging and minimal plastic use.
Atelier Fischer
Atelier Fischer is a Swiss, family-owned company founded in 1975, based in Schwarzenburg, near Bern.
Bare Knitwear
Bare Knitwear is a Canadian brand crafting timeless, small-batch essentials from premium Peruvian fibers. Partnering with artisans in Ayacucho, each piece blends heritage craftsmanship with modern, minimalist design.
East End Press
East End Press is a Glasgow-based studio creating vibrant, sustainable paper goods and homeware using hand-printed recycled materials and fair-trade practices.
- A Bronze Age
- A World of Craft
- A Zoo In My Wall
- Ali Golden
- Ampersand
- Apprenti Organik
- Aprikose
- Areaware
- Ark Colour Design
- Ash Posy
- Atelier Fischer
- Baggu
- Bare Knitwear
- Bembien
- BigStuffed
- Bink
- Blabla Kids
- Blundstones
- Bobo Choses
- Bread + Puppet Press
- Breba
- Bri Foster Dolls
- Candylab Toys
- Caron Callahan
- Copito
- Corvus
- CouCou Suzette
- Counterpart
- Dansk
- Degen
- Demylee
- Disana
- Djeco
- Donsje
- Dregeno
- Earth tu Face
- Earthen Ceramics
- East End Press
- Egmont Toys
- Either/Or
- Ellen Hayward Ceramics
- Emily Winfield Martin
- Engel Natur
- Erzi
- Ester and Erik
- Eva Masaki
- Eve Gravel
- Everyday Oil
- Fagus
- Fair Play Projects
- Fanny and Alexander
- Fay Andrada
- Felt So Good
- First Rite
- Flamingo Estate
- Flensted Mobiles
- Fog Linen
- Folkmanis
- Fox Run Brands
- Franny Kids
- Fredericks and Mae
- Fub
- Gestalten
- Gillian Stevens
- Gluckskafer
- Goki
- Grapat
- Graupner Holzminiaturen
- Grech & Co
- Hachette Book Group
- Handmade Soap Emporium
- Happy Organics
- Hazeltine
- Heimess
- Hello Simone
- Herikita
- Hillery Sproatt
- Hiyoko Imai
- Holztiger
- Hubsch
- HVID
- Ina Seifart
- Incausa
- Ingram
- Iris Hantverk
- Irvin's Tinware
- Isotopia
- Italian Candle Collection
- Ivo Angel
- Jantien Baas
- Jellycat
- Jenny Lemons
- Jenny Pennywood
- Kathe Kruse
- Kellner Steckshop
- Kikkerland
- Kiko & GG
- Kitpas
- Konges Slojd
- L.F.Markey
- La Belle Excuse
- La Fourmi
- La Petite Leonne
- Le Bon Shoppe
- Leo Leo Copenhagen
- LiiLU
- Lisbeth
- Living Libations
- Londji
- Loquai Holzkunst
- Lore Pemberton
- Lorna Murray
- lubulona
- Lunch Lady Magazine
- Mabli
- Madre Linen
- Maileg
- Main Sauvage
- Mamelok
- Maria Shoettler
- Martina Thornhill Ceramics
- Meadows
- Merge
- Meri Meri
- Micaela Greg
- Milk x Soda
- Minikane
- Minimalisma
- Misha & Puff
- Monk + Anna
- Moon Picnic
- Mother Tongue
- Moulin Roty
- Munder
- Namaki
- Nanchen Natur
- Nedre Foss
- Neo Grün
- New Grain
- New York Puzzle Company
- Olli Ella
- Omm Design
- Original Duckhead
- Ornaments 4 Orphans
- Ostheimer
- Ouistitine
- Oyoy
- Pampshade
- Penguin Random House
- Penguin Random House14
- People I've Loved
- Petit Jour Paris
- Petit Nord
- Petites Pommes
- Phoebe Wahl
- Pied Piper Crafts
- Plan Toys
- Plasticana
- Polka Dot Club
- Pop Cutie
- Projektityyny
- Quincy Mae
- Raincoast Books
- Redecker
- Repose Ams
- Rex London
- Rita Row
- Roam Studio
- Roger Orfevre
- Rylee & Cru
- Salt Water Sandals
- Sarah’s Silks
- Schylling
- Scribble & Daub
- Scrollino
- Second Story Press
- Senger Naturwelt
- Shaina Mote
- Shop Aprikose
- Silly Silas
- Sirius Glassworks
- Smithereen Farm
- Soft Gallery
- Stemcell Science Shop
- Stephanie Cheng
- Sticky Lemon
- Studio Anorak
- Studio Roof
- Sun Jellies
- Sunroom
- The Animals Observatory
- The Floral Society
- The Urban Acres
- The Wandering Workshop
- The Wooly Cauldron
- Three Potato Four
- Tinned Candle
- Tiny Cottons
- Uncle Goose
- Ursa Minor
- URSi
- Vilac
- Wheat Kids Clothing
- Windblest Apothecary
- Wol Hide
- Wooden Story
- Wordbits
- Wrap
- Xenia Taler
- Élémentaire