The Thousands

It’s good to be particular about the way things look. And better to be particular about their effect on the environment, working with local industry and strengthening a community – something &company largely promote. What they provide is mentoring, production facilitation, marketing and distribution, as well as some good-looking, and not-too-precious-to-use home wares.

After a set of collaborations with Gaffa (and a few ongoing), &company have naturally moved into one of the old holding cells in the Arcade of the Gaffa Precinct (it used to be a cop shop). Utilising the tiny space principally as a studio, they’ve packed a full, but not over-stocked, shop front with their own designs and other independently designed stuff. All of it made in Australia.

Porcelain Oyster Shells and Milk Bottles (with patterned insides), and hilarious tea towels printed with punny Christina Aguilera, Snoop Dog and Michael Jackson lyrics are currently in stock, but over their six-month residency expect a collaboration with Black Star Pastry (who’re popping up in the opposite cell this weekend) and a consistent rotation of stock to be stacked and sold to anyone with good taste and a virtuous sense of procuring (that’s you).