About

It started with a house.
We moved in and it had great light and a stone fireplace. We decided early on that we would only bring in real things – actual artwork, objects with a maker, pieces that meant something. Nothing filler, nothing fast.

That’s the thing about well-made things made to last. Once you see it you cannot unsee it.

I started finding beautiful things everywhere. A hand-blown glass apple. A set of Noritake dishes painted by someone in Japan a hundred years ago. A brass bottle opener that has been opening bottles longer than I’ve been alive. Objects already here, not trend cycles where it must be made quickly, temporary, to feed an economy.

I started buying them. For my own house first, then for others. Each one chosen for how it works in a space – the weight of it, the scale, what it does next to other things. Things you actually use.

I source slowly. I document what I can. When I can’t trace a maker, I say so.

The name is Croatian. Pomalo means take it easy, slow down, relax. Little by little. It’s not a word that translates cleanly into English, which is part of why it fits. That’s the pace this runs at. It’s the only pace that makes sense.

- b. from Lawrence, KS