Our Oases.

We took these images for the new issue of Another Escape, which features our green living and working space, and where Jeska talks about how plants bring a positive and creative energy to our every day. It is a privilege to be part of their feature alongside other creative plant loving folk. .

We spend a lot of time indoors working, so we wanted to create an indoor oasis too, somewhere we could garden in all weathers. We have always felt quite tethered to the natural world, but we feel it even more so now than ever before.

- Photos by Dean & Jeska Hearne.

Locations featured:

Watergate Bay, Cornwall. Newquay, Cornwall. Hartland Quay, North Devon. Dungeness, Kent. Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. The Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland. Galway, Ireland.

A small collection of photos from our travels along the coasts of the UK and Ireland. Living on the coast keeps us forever inspired by the shoreline, its ever changing landscape, the colours, the fact that no single two moments are ever the same as the sea moves and flows, millions of years of patterns, textures and beauty created by the constant motion and tides.

- Photos by Dean Hearne.

We are very excited to announce our upcoming 4-day pop-up shop in collaboration with West Elm, which will run from the 29th October until the 1st November at their London store on Tottenham Court road.

Alongside our collection of goods, we will be bringing some exclusive items to the store including vintage ceramics and some new collaborations being finished as we speak. We'll be running a spoon carving workshop on the Saturday afternoon with Max from Forest + Found (booking information here) and an in-store photography competition where you can polish up on your styling and photography skills and have a chance to win £200 worth of gift cards from The Future Kept + West Elm.

Swing by, grab a coffee, and hang out for a while, we would love to meet as many of you as possible over the 4 days! - Jeska & Dean.

16th October Update: It brings us great sadness to announce that unfortunately Trevor Ablett passed away this week, the world has lost a true inspiration and one of the greatest craftsman we had the pleasure of meeting. Our thoughts are with his family.

When our beloved Trevor Ablett announced his retirement earlier this year due to health, we couldn't see ourselves stocking another pocket knife. Trevor is one of a kind, every phone call with him was an inspiration, up until his recent retirement he was one of the few remaining craftsman knife makers creating British made pocket knives in a small Sheffield workshop, something he has been doing for over 50 years. Trevor is termed a "Little Mester" locally, this term was used to describe the legions of highly skilled, self-employed Sheffield craftsmen during the mid 1800's, who were the backbone of what was then the world's cutlery and tool-making capital.

Not long after he retired, Trevor personally contacted Joseph Rodgers knives on our behalf to say what a pleasure it was to work with us, and they should get in touch... We had been aware of the Joesph Rodgers knives due to their 300 year Sheffield history, and beautiful craftsmanship just like Trevor's creations. After building up such a relationship with Trevor, it was an honour to be recommended to them by him, and for us to continue to support a British industry and craft steeped in tradition.

The Star and Maltese Cross found on the Joseph Rodgers knives was originally registered in March 1682 by a Benjamin Rich. However, it is with Joseph Rodgers that this mark will forever by associated and they registered it in 1764. Rodgers focused on producing the finest quality knives and looked for the best in every aspect of knife production from materials to workmanship. Each knife was branded with the Star and Cross as a guarantee of its superb quality. It has been claimed that so great was Rodgers reputation for producing only the finest products that the word Rujjus, a variation on “Rodgers” entered into the Sinhalese dialect as a general expression of superlative quality.

Joseph Rodgers’ success is evident in the firm’s appointment to five successive sovereigns - George IV, William IV, Queen Victoria, Edward II and George V.

Sometimes things are meant to be, and as sad as it is that Trevor will no longer be making his knives, we can proudly say that we are the first store to be stocking the beautiful Joseph Rodgers knives using the same Yorkshire Oak handles as Trevor, handmade in Sheffield, with a history dating back to 1682.