We are excited to be able to share with you that renowned flatweave company Roger Oates Design are the new custodians of Solidwool. Although the ownership of the company has changed, some things remain constant; a love for design, a passion for wool and its value and our commitment to creating beautiful materials without compromising our planet.
With some help from Justin, we are working hard behind the scenes to further develop the Solidwool material and are well underway designing a new series of Hembury chairs which is proving an exciting and experimental journey.
With just a few last hurdles to overcome, we look forward to sharing the Hembury chair with you once again in the coming months. We want to make it perfect…or rather perfectly individual, which we think is even better!
Thank you all for your continued interest, support and patience, it really is a driving force. We are as enthusiastic as you are to relaunch. So, here’s to the next chapter, we’ll be sure to keep you updated.
Team Solidwool
An Update
From the Founders
Following our last post back in January things have (understandably) been a little quiet, but we have some good news to share and an exciting announcement for Solidwool. Firstly, thanks to everyone who took the time to write to us and also to the many of you who expressed an interest in taking Solidwool on.
For us closing the doors to the factory was a personal decision and never about selling out. It was about admitting that the waves of life can change how you want to live your life. Tough as it was, we knew that running Solidwool was not for us anymore.
Thanks to all of the interest, what quickly became apparent was despite this, we would have an opportunity to find someone with the resources to continue what we had started and move Solidwool on to realise its potential.
From initial conversations, one interested company stood out from the beginning and we are pleased to share that we believe we have found a new home for Solidwool that is a great fit. Where there is a team who value craft, materiality, design and soul as much as we did.
So this is us handing over to them. They will make the perfect home for Solidwool and the material, products and brand are a great fit with their product, processes and company ethos. Development and production will remain fairly local to us and we are so excited to see where they take things. So much so, that we are sticking around for the time being with Justin overseeing work on a new chair and material development.
So here’s to hoping that you stick around too and you give them every bit of support and love that you showed to us. Once the dust has settled the new Solidwool team will be able to share even more with you. Exciting times are ahead.
Hannah & Justin.