Contemporary Korean Craft, Curated

Heritage,
made present

A curation house for contemporary Korean craft. Daram finds the makers, chooses the pieces, and brings them to shops that could never reach them before.

Korean craft materials on hanji paper — natural pigment, a celadon shard, mother-of-pearl, brushes and a lacquer knife
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What we curate

Chosen, maker by maker

The whole field of Korean craft, seen through a single eye. Made by hand, and made to be lived with.

What earns a place
  • The kind of thing you keep for thirty years, then pass on.
  • Handmade, and unafraid to look it.
  • An old technique doing something it hasn't done before.
Translucent ramie patchwork in soft sage, cream and earth tones
The Work

The quiet things
you keep

The best Korean work is unhurried. It leaves room for empty space, and never hides the hand that made it. Old technique, carried into something that belongs in the present.

Most of it has never left Korea.

By request See the work →
To the Trade

For the people who
choose beautiful things

A new curation house, assembling its first collection. The earliest stores get first pick, and help shape what comes next.

01

New to the U.S.

Work your shelves don't have, from makers no American store can reach. Some, you'll find through Daram alone.

02

True DDP

The price on the line sheet is the price you pay. No surprise customs, ever.

03

Know the maker

Every piece comes with the person who made it, and the reason it's made that way.

The collection is our edit. Beyond it, ask for a particular maker, a material, or a piece made to order, and we'll source it.

Prefer email? hello@daramcollective.com