The Mangrove
Our founder, Bryan Bolzan, was born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Jabour: a neighbourhood of Goiabeiras, Vitória, in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, where the streets end in mangrove and the mangrove ends in sea. Childhood was the beach and the tide roots. It was a daily education in how nature builds beautiful things: slowly, organically, layer by layer. That aesthetic runs through every piece we make.
Goiabeiras is also craft country. It is the home of the paneleiras, the artisan women whose hand-shaped black clay pots, finished with tannin drawn from mangrove bark, became the first tradition ever registered as intangible cultural heritage of Brazil. Growing up beside them teaches you something permanent: the highest form of luxury is a thing made by hand, by someone with a name, the same way for generations. Bairro Jabour is named after that place.


