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Flower Constellations - the story so far

30/3/2018

Flower Constellations / Effortless arrangements, inspired by the stars - pre-order now on Kickstarter

a personal note - the journey so far

Three days into our campaign and i'm finally finding the time to tell you a bit more about our Flower Constellations and their back story.

I'll be posting other updates about aspects of our design and production-process in the future, but for now, let me tell you a bit about the journey preceding our Flower Constellations crowdfunding campaign.

Flower Constellations -timeline- / Effortless arrangements, inspired by the stars - pre-order now on Kickstarter

the waterworks experience

After designing and successfully crowdfunding Waterworks, bringing our natural watering system to market turned out to be less straightforward than we had hoped.

We learned a great deal about running a business that first year and started to craft a strategy about the way we would develop House of Thol further.

Working best while coming up with solutions in our own living environment, we focus on keeping our designs close to ourselves.
We aim to create durable products that add value to our daily lives and help us maintain a green lifestyle.

Four years on, we have established a worldwide network of supporters and shops, and have sold almost 5000 Waterworks-sets.

We are ready for a new green product to add to our House of Thol collection.

Waterworks / Natural watering system for houseplants / order now on www.shophouseofthol.nl - design by House of Thol / photograph by Masha Bakker photography

House of Thol - Durable products for a green everyday / Thomas & Jana in the workshop - photograph by Masha Bakker photography

Crafting the constellations

Two years ago, we designed a little metal frame that would easily hold your avocado-pits in a glass of water: the pit-frame.
We designed it to be flat-pack and fit a variety of jars and glasses.

Flower Constellations / Effortless arrangements, inspired by the stars <the road to...> - pre-order now on Kickstarter

A large Dutch Garden center opted to produce it, but ran into management-issues and production stalled.
Last year we took matters back into our own hands and developed the Flower Constellations: based on the same flat-pack multi-fit principle, but for flowers and with an improved design.

We aimed to create a durable tool that would not only be functional, but would be lovely to gift as well.

While researching random patterns, we ran into the constellations.

A perfect fit, not because we're into astrology that much, but because we love that millenia ago, people tried to make sense of the skies and created the constellations as some kind of memory aid.
Telling each other stories so their order of things would not be forgotten.

the next step

After a year of designing, testing, tweaking, modeling and prototyping, our Flower Constellations are all set for production.

We have a reliable production partner lined up, and are now ready for the next step.

Having our friends and family fall in love with the product just like we did, gave us the right amount of confidence to set up our Kickstarter Campaign.

Will you help us get the Flower Constellations out there?