from one paradise to another.
any cocktail tastes best in your favourite glass.
When I have had a long day at work I come home, say hello to the dog, and make a manhattan. The apartment is messy, dinner is not started, but the coupe is chilled and I have made something good.
on glassware
Small Paradise Co. is a project that began when I returned home to my little apartment with a box of newly rescued glassware to realize that I had nowhere to put them.
Every coupe and collins had been carefully excavated from cardboard boxes and bottom shelves - the loneliest corners of old houses. So I found them, washed them, paraded them out when friends came over and dressed them in the cocktails I was trying to learn. Everyone knows that objects are happiest when used - so obviously it was a problem when they began to take over my studio apartment.
& paradise
With Small Paradise Company I hope to bring your favourite glass to you. All glassware available is previously owned, often mid-century. The individual glasses are renamed to reflect what I knew about their previous owners [when possible] or what the glass looks like to me, rather than the company that originally made them. Also it’s more fun than just a description - and isn’t that how it should be?
A well made Manhattan, Martini, Negroni, Daiquiri, Old Fashioned - these are not difficult with a bit of practice and they taste much better in your favourite glass.