Solutions for Living: Simple Everyday Designs by George and Willy

“We make things that we ourselves need but struggle to find,” explain George Wilkins and William McCallum. The Tauranga, New Zealand–based duo connected in college, where the two business majors discovered a toolshed on campus and a shared love of tinkering. They sold their initial pieces outside the school library, and post-grad set up the George & Willy workshop in a boat shed.

That was just a few years ago and since then, they’ve been busy tackling all sorts of household basics, from pegboards to laundry racks: “the kinds of things you’d be stoked to find in your granddad’s shed,” they say. Join us for a look at George and Willy’s world.

It’s available in a range of sizes, and comes with powder-coated aluminum fittings in black or white. This one, with a 224-millimeter-long bracket (approximately 8.8 inches) is $103 USD, and includes a roll of brown paper and mounting screws. The rollers fit universal kraft paper rolls.

George & Willy designs are all made in the duo’s New Zealand studio and most flatpack for efficient shipping.

For more international household basics, take a look at:

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