Our Story

The house

Pero Niño was a Castilian knight and sea commander who sailed for Henry III of Castile at the turn of the fifteenth century, through the Mediterranean and up the Atlantic coasts. What he carried home was never really plunder. It was objects. Glass, copper, olive wood, salt and cloth, and the notion that a thing might be beautiful and useful at once and might be worth carrying a very long way.

That is more or less the whole brief.

Est. 2018

We began trading in 2018, and spent our first years selling through other people's marketplaces. That taught us a great deal about what sells, and rather less about what lasts. This is the shop we always meant to build. Our own, stocked only with things we would keep ourselves.

How we buy

We are a small house, and we look for makers rather than labels. The forge in the Basque country that still grinds every edge by hand. The family in Puglia who have thrown the same water jug for four generations. The English foundry that will gladly make you sixty of something, but not six hundred.

We buy direct wherever we can, in quantities that make sense, and we hold the stock ourselves. There is no drop-shipping here, and no third party you have never heard of putting a box in the post on our behalf.

What we will not do

We do not sell anything we would not keep. We do not carry a piece because it photographs well. And we do not run a permanent sale, because a permanent sale is only a price with an apology attached to it.

Four rooms

The kitchen, the home, the bar and the garden. Everything we carry belongs to one of them, and everything is chosen against the same three questions. Is it made well. Will it last. And will you like it more in ten years than you do today.

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