We started with one belief: that less, placed well, lasts longer.
A small studio with a long attention span.
Zinnia began as a single room and a simple rule: keep nothing that is not earning its place. That rule outgrew the room. Today the work moves between objects, spaces, and the ideas that hold them together.
What has not changed is the pace. We work slowly on purpose, because the things worth keeping are rarely the things made in a hurry.
What we hold to.
PrinciplesRestraint
We subtract before we add. Most problems are solved by removing something, not buying something.
Material
Surfaces are chosen for how they wear. A good material is more honest a year in than on day one.
Light
Everything is designed around the hour it is used. Light is the first material, not the last.
Patience
We let work settle before we call it finished. Calm is the result of decisions made without rush.
We treat a shelf and a building the same way.
Scale changes, method does not. Find the one idea, give it room, remove the rest. The discipline that arranges a single object is the discipline that organizes a whole space.