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Most homes have great furniture and afterthoughts. The sofa was chosen carefully. The art was framed properly. And then — a cardboard box of tissues sits on the shelf next to it, quietly undermine the room. Not anymore.
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I'd spent 10+ years as an industrial designer — obsessing over every curve, joint, and material choice in the products I worked on. Then one day I looked at my own desk and saw a hideous cardboard box of tissues sitting on my desk.
It was jarring. Not because the box was ugly (though it was), but because I realized I'd never once thought to ask: why am I accepting this?
So I started looking around my house for these understated objects that we seem to just accept. The dish soap bottle, the tissue holder, the key dish, the things that fill the corners of our homes. And I kept coming back to the same idea:
A space is only as nice as its least thoughtful object
We spend a ton of time selecting our furniture, art, lamps, then let a branded cardboard box sits there quietly undermining it all. Moss & Matter is my attempt to fix that.
To those who were here early, thank you for your support. To those just arriving, thank you for being part of what's next.
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Hours of 3D printing
00 - The Problem
We've all seen them: the hideous cardboard boxes sitting on the counter. We accept them without thinking, and quietly, they chip away at the spaces we've worked hard to make feel intentional.
01 - The First Prototype
A weekend, a 3D printer, and the conviction that this couldn't be that hard. The first version was rough — but for the first time, the tissue box on the counter wasn't an apology.
02 - Iterations & Improvements
Wall thickness, function, fit, the angle of the opening — every detail got its own argument. After dozens of revisions, the form finally stopped fighting us and started feeling inevitable.
03 - The Etsy Era
We listed it almost as an experiment. Four hundred orders and forty-five states later, it was clear the cardboard box wasn't just our problem — it was everyone's, quietly.
04 - Material Selection
3D printing got us here, but it couldn't get us further. Committing to ceramic meant slower timelines, higher stakes, and an object that would actually feel the way it looked.
05 - Finding the Right Hands
A ceramic object is only as good as the people making it. We spent months sourcing a manufacturer who could hold the tolerances and treat the work like their own — and finally found them.
06 - Production
Five hundred units, one kiln schedule, and a lot of trust in the people running it. This is where a side project quietly becomes a brand.
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