Notes on a tin

A pouch would have been cheaper. It would also have ended up in a drawer, half-rolled, clipped shut, and eventually thrown away. We wanted the opposite: an object that earns its counter space and gets refilled instead of replaced.

Two tins, not one divided

The early prototypes were a single tin with a divider down the middle. It tested badly for a reason that took us embarrassingly long to name — a divided tin says one thing shared reluctantly. Two tins say two portions, equally intended.

So the cocoa tin is yours and the sage tin is theirs, and neither is a compartment of the other.

Why they nest

They ship inside one lined box because the unboxing is the point. Nothing to assemble, nothing to pair up yourself. Lift the lid and both halves are already there, side by side, which is the entire argument of the brand in one image.

Keep the tins. Refill the sage one. The box is designed to be the only part you let go of.