Topdrawer designs tools for the impossibly creative.

We make things that help people think clearly, live intentionally, and create with purpose: fountain pens, notebooks, house shoes, sunglasses, watercolors, leather goods, and more. Every item is designed for daily use, built to last, and meant to become part of your life—at home, at work, and while you travel.

Our work is grounded in rituals. Many of them are drawn from Japanese life: the quiet pleasure of changing into house shoes, the practice of watercolor sketching while traveling, the act of journaling by hand, or writing with intention rather than tapping a screen. These are small gestures that, done daily, shape how we experience the world.

We design nearly everything ourselves in Boston and Tokyo under our own brands, Topdrawer and Kolo. What we don’t make, we select through long-standing, exclusive partnerships with like-minded makers:

• Paper Republic (Vienna) – Leather notebooks with soul
• Romeo (Tokyo) – Timeless writing instruments
• Original Vintage (Naples) – Handcrafted sunglasses inspired by old Hollywood

These brands are available exclusively through Topdrawer, and each one reflects the same commitment to elegance, utility, and permanence.

Alongside our internal design team, we also collaborate with some of the world’s leading industrial designers to create products that are purposeful, enduring, and quietly original.

We believe that the best tools don’t call attention to themselves. They earn their place quietly—and become essential not through fashion, but through use.