Our register
Twenty-three names.
No anonymous goods.
Field Common is a buying-and-curating outfit in the Hudson Valley. We don't make anything ourselves. We carry a small short list of objects from named workshops — and we promise that the person who made the thing you bought is on a real first-name basis with us.
Hatch Pottery · Hudson Valley
The makers register
Twenty-three workshops (of about three hundredwe've looked at).
How we choose
Three quiet rules.
A working life of ten years.
Before we carry an object, we ask: will it look better in ten years than it does today, or at least as good? If the answer is no, it doesn't make the register.
A person on the other end.
Every object we carry has a maker we can call on the phone. No anonymous factories, no white-label, no “designed in” where the design is the only thing that happened where it claims to.
A way to repair it.
If we can't answer “how do you repair this?” with a real answer, we don't carry it. For pieces over $200, repair is on us for the first three years.