On craft, disposition and travel..

Travel has a way of expanding the interior world. It’s in these journeys, stepping into new landscapes and cultures, that we are reminded of the lessons that shape how we work, create, and see the world.

As a brand and people, we love to travel. Not only does it broaden our horizons, it opens our eyes to what life has to offer — but from the unique perspective each destination provides.

If you’ve been keeping up with our Instagram stories, you’ll notice we’ve been sharing how our team has been exploring the best of Kenya.

This journey has taken them across the country — by coach, train, and short domestic flights — discovering wildlife, architecture, food, and culture along the way.

The landscapes shift, the light deepens, and suddenly the smallest gestures of craft become visible everywhere: in the way people build, arrange their spaces, and move through the day.

There’s a guiding idea we carry quietly — not from a single voice, but shaped collectively over time..

“The most intelligent are those of craft — architects, carpenters, and builders — an idea shaped over time, refined again and again through witnessing how people create, repair, and build with intention.”

Kenya brings the fullness of this idea into focus.

In Nairobi, intelligence is expressed through structure — in the confidence of new buildings rising alongside older forms, in the choreography of markets, in the rhythm of tradition meeting modern imagination.

The city feels alive with craft, where every line drawn or material placed reflects intention.

As the team journeys southward, the landscape unfolds in layers, passing through small towns and bustling market cities that each hold their own character.

Traveling by coach and train, the road itself becomes part of the lesson: every stop offers a new rhythm, perspective and a new palette of textures, colours, and patterns.

Craft reveals itself differently here — in the tiled façades of a small station, the worn wood of a roadside stall, the hands of people shaping daily life with quiet precision.

Each town, no matter it’s size, contributes a fragment to the broader story of making, knowledge and intelligence.

Artisans encountered along the way shape wood, fibre, clay, and metal with an ease that suggests deep inheritance.

Nothing is hurried; every motion carries memory. These encounters — small, passing, unforced — redefine intelligence. Not the academic kind, not the digital kind, but the kind found in hands that know exactly what to do.

Approaching Mombasa, craft becomes inseparable from nature.

Dhow builders carve timber with sensitivity to wind, water, and seasons. Swahili doors hold centuries of stories in repeating patterns.

Here, making feels cyclical rather than linear — shaped by tide, time, and tradition.

And the journey is still unfolding. There are several more days ahead — more artisans to meet, more architecture to witness and more landscapes to explore.

As these days continue, we are collecting what resonates most. Seeking textures that linger, architectural moments that demand stillness and objects that feel like conversation — slowly discovering local knowledge passed on in gestures and not just in words.

When the journey concludes, these discoveries won’t remain scattered…

We’ll shape them into a small travel guide — a curated map of the places, makers, and quiet encounters worth exploring along the way.

A guide shaped by the lessons of this journey: patience, presence, and the quiet truth that craft — in every form — is how we come to understand the world and our place within it.