CURIO began with a private commission from NET-A-PORTER. What followed was a series of collaborations and retail partnerships with Selfridges, Liberty, The Conran Shop, The River Cafe and Harrods.
CURIO sits alongside Vanderohe, Olivia Thorpe’s skincare line, as part of a wider design practice shaped by material, ritual and the senses. Across both, Olivia designs and makes with an instinct for colour, texture, scent and form — creating objects and formulations intended to become part of everyday life.
PEBBLE STACK
The first CURIO design and still its most recognisable. The Pebble Stack® drew press attention from launch and established the sculptural language that has run through the collections ever since.
The Pebble Stack® provides the same ritualistic meditation that comes from literally stacking pebbles on a beach...combine this with colour and you have something earth-bound and talismanic that also feels exotic and exciting.
“The pebble thing is somehow primal; it's like a movement away from excess and back to nature.”
Olivia Thorpe, FT HTSI.