Our Founder, Erin
From an early age, I was a curious observer of the built world and the objects within it. Conversations with my father often turned to design; how something might be improved, refined, or reconsidered. I remember, in particular, animated discussions about a jacket whose pockets, we both agreed, had been placed entirely in the wrong position. It was a small detail, perhaps, but one that revealed an early fascination with how thoughtful design, or the lack of it, shapes our everyday experience.
For more than a decade, I circled the idea of becoming an interior designer while building experience across several fields, including wedding planning, healthcare management, and commercial construction. Along the way, I renovated my first home largely through hands-on experimentation, learning the practical language of materials, proportion, and craftsmanship through countless small projects.
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Ultimately, I made the decision to move to Canada to pursue a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design. My studies centered on a conviction that the environments we create have a profound influence on the lives lived within them — that thoughtful design can meaningfully shape health, wellbeing, longevity, and happiness. As Winston Churchill famously observed, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” That sentiment became foundational to my design philosophy.
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After completing my degree, I found a like-minded community within residential interior design, where I continued to refine my eye for detail, materiality, and atmosphere. It was through this work, layering textiles, light, and architectural form, that I discovered the quiet power of lampshades. Their ability to soften light, introduce pattern and texture, and transform the mood of a room drew me naturally toward the craft.
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The process of making them by hand also returned me to something deeply familiar: the satisfaction of working directly with materials. It echoed the years spent renovating my first home and the long hours in the woodshop during my design studies, prototyping and producing ideas with my hands. That act of making, of shaping an object from concept to finished form, has always been central to who I am.
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In many ways, my work today reflects the path that led me here. The romance and sense of occasion I learned through wedding planning, the attentiveness to well-being shaped by healthcare, and the meticulous, hands-on quality of construction all find their place in the studio. Each light we create is an expression of those influences — designed with intention, crafted by hand, and made to bring warmth, beauty, and a sense of quiet delight to the spaces people call home.