If you have ever come home from a holiday more exhausted than when you left, I can relate.

It’s these little details that really matter me, when I’m designing our pieces.

The concept of slow living that is all about walking barefoot in the woods, just isn’t realistic for most of us. Instead, I like to think more about living consciously, rather than slowly.

A dream is so much better realised, than left as a dream.

We often look outside of ourselves to find a sense of place and belonging, for our happiness - but a true sense of self comes from these quiet moments with ourselves, noticing, listening, seeing.

“… going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir

Working in a big city doesn’t leave you with much free time, so the time I did have, needed to be used well, and wherever possible, devoted to some serious self care.

Starting elliot. was about getting back to basics: creating beautiful, simple, timeless pieces that are made to last, and that don’t damage the environment in their production.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll have been rushing through the last decades of your life, focused on the next task, the next goal.

It was like the best night of dancing I had ever had - without the drugs or the hangover.

In Recognition of Advancing Social & Environmental Sustainability

It’s about finding the places where the crowds thin and the paths narrow. Taking the scenic route to work. Drawing for pleasure again.

It felt the same as opening that letter you get telling you your exam results - you want to do it, don’t want to do it… and everything goes slo-mo till you do.