In 1963, in County Cork, a young man named Christy opened a small family market stall. He sold hand-knit Aran jumpers, thick cream things that smelt of turf smoke and lanolin. But Christy did not just sell wool. He sold the woman who knit it, the cottage where it was made and the family who carded the fleece.

Travellers stopped not for the price but for the story. They went home with a jumper and a name, the maker's name. That was the seed of Kilkenny Design.

Three generations later, the stall is gone but the handshake remains. We work directly with the people who make the pieces we sell. We visit their workshops, we know their families, and we still believe a beautiful object is, first and last, a human one.