FBBT-L-007
Arc 65, Carrara & Brass
After Castiglioni. Hand-finished in Lombardy.
$ 2,140
A Catalogue of Considered Objects · Est. 2026
Fewer,
but better
things.
Manifesto · Nº 01
"Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials."
— after Dieter Rams, our patron in absentia
i.
Honest material.
Walnut should look like walnut. Brass should oxidize. We do not stain plywood to imitate something it is not.
ii.
Quiet form.
The shape of the object should disappear into use. If a chair announces itself across the room, it is the wrong chair.
iii.
Slow making.
Small editions, named makers. Lead times are honest, not artificial. Some things take six weeks because they take six weeks.
iv.
Long use.
An object you keep for thirty years is cheaper, kinder, and more interesting than one you replace four times.
02 ·
The Edit
The Edit
Three objects we kept thinking about this season.
FBBT-F-001
Edit Pick
Lounge Nº 01, Terracotta & Walnut
Our reissue of the 670 — bronze tetrapod base, in-house. New York atelier.
$ 4,280
FBBT-B-021
A Reading Table
Three monographs: Eames, Mariko Mori, Mavis Pusey.
$ 168
03 ·
Catalogue
Catalogue
The full index, by category.
Furniture
07 of 21-
Lounge Nº 01, Terracotta & Walnut$ 4,280
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Lo Bench, Walnut Plank$ 1,260
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Quiet Sideboard, Ash$ 3,420
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Saarinen Table, Marble$ 4,180
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Tulip Reading Chair$ 2,640
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Open Shelving, Bronze$ 2,180
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The House Stool$ 320
Lamps
07 of 21-
Arc 65, Carrara & Brass$ 2,140
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Akari 1A, Rice Paper$ 220
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Bauhaus Desk, Black Steel$ 680
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Mushroom Lamp, Murano$ 880
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Linen Pendant, Conical$ 460
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Tizio, Anglepoise$ 540
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PH 5, Pewter$ 1,120
Books
07 of 21-
Rams: Less but Better$ 78
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An Eames Anthology$ 92
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Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows$ 24
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Mavis Pusey: Reverberations$ 65
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The Monocle Book of Homes$ 86
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Mariko Mori: Cycles$ 70
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Vitsœ 620 Notes$ 32
04 ·
The House
The House
FBBT is one room of a small house.
You are here
Est. MMXXVI · New York
Things. Est. MMXXIV · New York
Donquez Visit → Est. MMXXV · Brooklyn
Pajama People Visit → Est. MMXXV · Manhattan
Muffins Visit →
Furniture, lamps, and books for the home.
Fewer, but betterThings. Est. MMXXIV · New York
Universal luxury menswear, made for every man.
MarkoDonquez Visit → Est. MMXXV · Brooklyn
Premium sleepwear, for slow Sundays kept holy.
ProperPajama People Visit → Est. MMXXV · Manhattan
Small-batch muffins, baked the same morning they're sold.
Drury LnMuffins Visit →
05 ·
The Workshop
The Workshop
Numbers we keep, on purpose.
21
Objects · Vol. 01
A complete season fits in a single page. We add one only when something else can leave.
07
Named makers
Every piece carries a workshop, a town, and the hands that made it. No house brand pretending to be a community.
40yrs
Median useful life
Each listing carries an honest estimate of years of use. We'd rather sell you one chair than four.
∞
Repair, in perpetuity
If we sold it, we'll fix it — or we'll find the workshop that can. The receipt is permanent.
06 ·
Notebook
Notebook
Letters from the workshop.
On the patience of a piece of wood.
A walnut plank that becomes our Lo Bench was rough-sawn in 1998 in central Vermont. It has been air-drying in a barn for twenty-six years. It is older than the maker who joins it. We wrote about why we wait.
Read the essay
04 · MAR
Read →
17 · FEB
Read →
02 · FEB
Read →
19 · JAN
Read →
Why we kept the Akari, and let the rest go.
An argument for paper, in a year of plastic.
A room is a sentence. Punctuate it.
On the lamp as a comma, the chair as a full stop.
The catalogue of things we did not make.
Three objects we love that we'll never sell, and why.
A short defence of the secondhand.
The most sustainable lamp is the one already in your house.
Quarterly · Print & Post
The quietest letter we know how to write.
One season, one page. New objects, names of the people who made them, and a short essay. No promotions, no urgency, no imagery of a model holding a coffee cup.