Noah Wood

A note on what we're working on.

We started with a fragrance because fragrance was the gift the whole thing began with. Nearly a decade after Minna made The Original for Noah, we're still selling that scent, unchanged, in small batches, to people we wouldn't have known how to reach back then. It is the founding object of the house.

It is also not the last one.

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We're working on what comes next.

We have ideas we love and versions we don't. The brief is the same one that started the brand: make something specifically, on purpose, that a person could keep and use for a long time.

When the next object is ready, it will arrive in small batches, the way the first one did. We're not in a rush.

Two friends in sunglasses and jackets walking past a white shingled house on a coastal path
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The list of things Noah Wood will eventually make is short on purpose, and the order is governed by how each thing relates to the last one. We'd rather take an extra year and arrive with something worth keeping than fill a catalog.

A house gets built slowly. One room at a time.

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If you're reading this, you're early. Thank you for being here for the part where it's still small. There's nothing else like the people who showed up first.

The note at the bottom is where these letters go out. There's no schedule. Just notes from the workshop, when we have something specific to share.

— Minna

Letters from the Workshop · № 04