Collection: Fred's Picks

Fred runs this shop with Nicole, and this is the shelf he reaches for: the bar, the desk, and the things that get better with use.

Barware comes first. A proper cocktail shaker, a pewter ice bucket and a set of mint julep cups are the pieces a house keeps for decades, and the vintage silver we carry is the real thing rather than a reproduction. Brass from Skultuna sits alongside it, the bottle openers and the Lisa Larson animals, with the kerosene lighters we sell most of.

The desk half is pens and paper. Caran d'Ache has been making pens in Geneva since 1915, and the Leman at the top of this page is the one people pick up and then decide about. There are journals for the year ahead from Intelligent Change, and the About Blanks notebooks, whose covers are cut from out of print books.

Everything here is in stock and ships from either shop.