I mapped 490 European products – #100

This is edition 100 🎉

Which feels slightly ridiculous, because when I started this newsletter, I mostly wanted a better excuse to keep track of all the nice European things I kept finding online.

Gift ideas. Interiors inspiration. Tiny brands. Good design. The occasional object I had no rational reason to save, but did anyway.

Instead of losing them forever in open browser tabs.

Now there are 490 of them.

Small note: the first editions only had 3 products per week, so we’re a few finds short of 500. Which is annoying, but also exactly the kind of newsletter admin problem nobody prepares you for.

Lamps, chairs, ceramics, clocks, bikes, shelves, kettlebells, birdhouses, strange beanbags, very serious stationery, and at least a few objects that made me quietly ask myself whether I understand pricing at all.

So for edition 100, I built something slightly bigger than a normal issue:

A MAP.

Every product I’ve featured so far, placed across Europe, so you can explore the archive by country, brand, category, and rabbit hole.

You can enter it here:

Even after 100 editions, the idea is still pretty simple.

The best European products are still out there. They’re just weirdly hard to find.

Small brands don’t always win the ad auction. The ceramicist in Faenza, the outerwear brand in Oslo, the candle studio in Ghent, the tiny workshop making something beautiful for 74 people who somehow found their website in 2016.

From Europe with Love is my attempt to close that gap a little.

One find at a time.

And now, one pin at a time.

(The map is still a prototype. So expect running into some bugs. Sorry for that. Several products are still not perfectly located/have a wrong image/or missing text - I’m working on it. But would love to hear your feedback what else could be useful…Much appreciated.)

If you’re new around here: Every week, I share 5 of the nicest products from Europe I’ve discovered in the past 7 days.

I scout, you explore.

With love 🌞
Jakob

P.S.: Missed the last edition? The kithcen scale that works without batteries from Caso was the most-clicked product.

From Richard Lampert comes Milla, a standing desk by Otto Sudrow based on the Eiermann frame principle. It’s height-adjustable, works flat or angled, and has that very German ability to make “standing around with papers” look architectural. This newsletter is regularly written at one of these with the green top, because I do like working while standing up.

We already have enough kids’ bikes at home to open a very small Tour de France museum. But somehow I hadn’t seen this one before. LittleBig is an Irish 3-in-1 bike that starts as a small balance bike, turns into a bigger balance bike, and then becomes a pedal bike. Basically: one bike that grows with your kid, instead of your basement growing with bikes.

Designed by Kasper Kyster for Danish brand oursociety, the RE-WORK Bench is made from six folded aluminium components screwed together into one very clean little object. It works indoors, outdoors, as a bench, or as a console if you’re the kind of person who owns one beautiful vase and needs somewhere to place it. The orange version has just enough construction-site energy to keep things interesting.

Ella Fatima makes small-batch stoneware ceramics in Paris, with a special eye for coffee-shop-friendly pieces. These stackable cups come in earthy tones, including a new bronze touch, and look like the kind of cups that make a simple espresso feel considered. Also: stackable.

From Glasgow-based RISOTTO comes this pocket-sized mini notebook with a Riso-printed cover and 44 recycled inner pages. It’s 90 x 125 mm, blank inside, and small enough for ideas, lists, overheard sentences, or the kind of “genius business thought” that later turns out to be “buy trash bags.” Still worth writing down.

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