Beautifully Handmade Home & Lifestyle Products
Nkuku work with artisans throughout the world, combining timeless designs in Tableware, plates, side plates and bowls with traditional skills and natural materials.
From their website. It’s hard to summarise all the trials and tribulations that go into starting up a business as well as all the wonderful encounters and adventures that they have been lucky enough to experience, but here’s where it all began.
14 years ago they set out on a life-changing adventure, travelling the world and coming across talented craftspeople and their beautiful work along the way. It inspired them to do something different, so they moved to rural Devon and started working with artisans throughout the world, supporting and celebrating their skills by bringing their products to a wider audience.
Their name was borrowed from a hut in Zambia, their business plan jotted on the cover of a paperback and their first order was for exquisite leather journals that they still sell today.
Their team and products may have grown, but they still have the same hands-on approach, meeting and working with all their makers personally. That’s how they know that every product has a story to tell.