Our Story
Rust outside. Sunlight in.
We took a corrugated shed at the end of a working boatyard and cut the light back into it.
The building had been a boat shop, then a net loft, then storage for things nobody wanted to throw away. When we found it there were four inches of dust on the sills and a hull hanging from a chain over the door.
What it had — the only thing it really had — was windows. Twenty feet of steel-framed factory glass on the water side, facing east. On the first morning we stood in it, the sun came through and hit the far wall and the whole room turned the color of a peach.
We decided right there that everything we did would be in service of that light. White plaster. Bleached oak. Linen instead of blinds. Plants where they'd throw a shadow. Nothing dark, nothing heavy, nothing that had to shout.
Strength lives beside gentleness. Nothing here is decorative for decoration's sake.
The reception desk is boat timber. The beams are the ones that were already holding the roof up. The mugs came off a neighbor's wheel three blocks away. The art on the walls belongs to whoever is showing this month, and it is for sale, and we don't take a cut.
Outside the door it's still a shipyard: rust, steel, weather, tide charts, dogs asleep under hulls, a sign that has said DOCK CLOSED since before anyone can remember. We love that. The contrast is the whole brand.
People walk in expecting a barber shop. What they usually say, standing in the middle of the floor, is some version of the same sentence: I wish this existed in my neighborhood.
It can. That's the point. Start with the light.
Tell us your story. We've got time.
