Stories
Notes from the field
Brand stories, distant-living essays and the hands behind the craft.
2026-09-18 · 6 min read
From Xizhou to Changsha
Seven rooms, one habit. How a courtyard by Erhai Lake ended up on a rooftop 1,600 km east.
2026-08-30 · 4 min read
Why we stayed
A guest asked us once why we never expanded to a big city first. This is the honest answer.
2026-08-12 · 5 min read
A nomad's morning
What the long-table crowd actually does between 8am and 10am, and why we built the room around it.
2026-07-25 · 5 min read
The hands behind the craft
We do not make the handcraft ourselves. We visit the people who do, and we pay before the piece exists.
2026-07-06 · 3 min read
Coffee is not the point
The sentence we keep coming back to, and what it costs us in practice.
2026-06-21 · 7 min read
Roasting log 01: opening the book
We are publishing our roasting notes in the open, including the batches we got wrong.