The Material
Library

Shells are merroir.

What a shell becomes depends on the water it filtered, the bay it grew in, the season it was pulled. The way wine speaks of soil and slope, shell speaks of tide and temperature. A Bristol quahog is not a North Kingstown mussel. A November blend from a Providence restaurant is not a June one.

Every material in this library was destined for landfill. We source locally, we waste nothing, and we let the water tell us what the material will be.

The library begins in Narragansett Bay. It will not end there.