For two years, messages kept arriving: when is Smile coming back? The honest answer was — it isn't. Something better is taking its place. Smile was made in a Brooklyn apartment for the people of a neighborhood. What comes next is made for the people of a house — and it's built to a standard no drugstore shelf has ever met.
Daily essentials in black glass and antique gold. Objects you keep forever and refill for life — made to sit out on the counter, never hidden under a sink.
On June 15, our daughter was born. We named her Honor. In the weeks after — a newborn in one arm, reading the label of everything that touched her or her mother — one question kept sharpening: what do you owe the people you care for? The answer became a house, and the house was named after her. Maison Honor — honor as a daily practice, not a word.
The monogram is a gateway — two columns, a lintel, a threshold — with the letter H standing inside it. The columns are drawn from the Gemini glyph: Honor's own birth sign, and the twins standing for our two children. The lintel that spans them — the piece that holds the gateway together — is their mother. A gateway is a promise: what passes through this house's doors is held to a standard.
You'll be the first to see what comes through the gate.