Cast brass in three heights — 9cm, 14cm, 22cm. Hand-finished in Copenhagen by the third-generation Duedahl atelier. They tarnish slowly, which is precisely the point.
We have stocked Duedahl since the shop's first week. The new no.7 height arrives in May.
Hand-loomed flax linen, woven in Onomichi by a four-loom workshop on the inland sea. Six metres, undyed, breaks in the cloth left in. The kind of linen that softens for two decades.
One run per year, in March. Twenty-four pieces. When it goes, it goes.
Hand-thrown bone china, fired three times. The third firing is the colour-shift step — a soft pearl-grey that the photographs cannot quite show. By Tetsuya Ishibashi, Kyoto.
Each bowl signed and numbered. Ten this year. Pair-purchasing encouraged.
Hand-blown oil decanters from Cellule Verre, Marseille. Three sizes, paired numbering.
Salomon Maker black-leather tray. Edge-burnished, hand-stitched, Berlin atelier.
Margery Pleyte jugs from the Hobart kiln. Two heights, ten thrown this season.
The Madsen & Co. door handle no.7 — the Sydney workshop's seventh iteration since 2019.
Hiyaku Studio pendant lamps, hand-thrown on Naoshima. Twelve per kiln, twice a year.
Field Notes is not really a shop. It is a quarterly publication that happens to have a counter at the front. Each issue is held back to a print run of around six hundred, posted free to members, and stocked at the Crown Street floor in the same fortnight.
This is an inconvenient way to run a retail business. We know. The retail consultants we have refused to hire have said as much. The reasoning, plainly stated, is this: we want every object on the shelf to be one we have spent time with, by a maker we have written about, in an issue we have edited. If the object is not editable, it is not stockable.
The consequence is a small shop. Around two hundred objects, all of which we can tell you something useful about. There is no online ordering. There is no fast shipping. There is no fast anything.
What there is, instead, is a quarterly. We post it to members the second Monday of March, June, September, and December. We open the shop floor that morning at 11am, with the new pieces in the window. If you have read the issue first, you will recognise everything. If you have not, the floor staff will hand you a copy with your wrap.
The pieces sell because they are worth selling, and they sell out because there are not many of them. We do not restock between issues. That is a deliberate decision, not a supply problem. It is the only way we know how to run this kind of place.
Issue 14 launches in-store on the second Monday in March. Members receive issues by post; the shop floor is open to walk-ins all week.
405 Crown Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Tue – Fri · 11:00 – 18:00
Sat · 10:00 – 17:00
+61 2 9319 0810
shop@fieldnoteshome.com.au