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Wholesale and Trade Partnerships

Wholesale & Trade

Your shop has beautiful things. Essey belongs among them.

Some products need explaining. Essey doesn’t.

Bin Bin looks like crumpled paper. Wipy looks like the tissue it holds. Illusion looks like a tablecloth floating in mid-air.

You see them. You get them. That is Essey.

Design that literally shows you what it is. And that simple idea has turned everyday objects into design icons.

Not just products. Icons people notice.

For more than 20 years, Essey objects have been stopping people in their tracks. They are playful without being childish. Clever without trying too hard. Functional without ever looking ordinary.

Age, style or social group hardly matters — people notice them. They look. They smile. They touch them. They ask about them. And that is exactly what a great retail product should do.

Essey doesn’t disappear into a beautiful store. It gives people a reason to stop.

Design with a pedigree

Essey belongs in the world of serious design — while never taking itself too seriously.

The Illusion table was selected for the MoMA Permanent Collection in New York and is sold through the MoMA Design Store. Essey designs are represented in international design collections and have received some of the industry’s most recognised awards, including Red Dot 2006, iF Design 2006 and Good Design Award 2005.

Not bad for a waste bin, a tissue box and a tablecloth that forgot the table.

Why Essey works in retail

  • Because it is difficult to walk past.
  • Because the idea is understood in seconds.
  • Because it creates conversation.
  • Because customers remember it.
  • And because very few brands can turn something as ordinary as waste paper, a tissue or a tablecloth into the entire identity of a product.

That is what Essey calls Symbolic Functionalism.

We simply call it good design.

The Collection

Bin Bin
Wastepaper basket, designed by John Brauer in 2005. Rigid polyethylene, blow-moulded in one seamless piece. 310 × Ø 330 mm, 0.55 kg, 14 litres. Made in Germany. White, Black, Red and Graphite Grey.
Mini Bin Bin
Wastepaper basket, designed by John Brauer. Rigid polyethylene. 250 × Ø 250 mm, 0.36 kg, 7 litres. Made in Germany. White, Black, Red and Graphite Grey.
Pen Pen
Pencil holder, designed by John Brauer. Polyethylene. 100 × Ø 100 mm, 0.06 kg. Made in Germany. White, Black, Red, Graphite Grey and Transparent.
Wipy
Tissue box cover, cube. Thermoplastic elastomer, free from PVC, phthalates and latex. 130 × 130 × 130 mm. Made in Germany. White, Black, Red and Graphite Grey.
Wipy 2
Tissue box cover, rectangular. Thermoplastic elastomer. 260 × 140 × 82 mm. Made in Germany. White, Black, Red and Graphite Grey.
Illusion
Side table, hand-moulded 3 mm acrylic. 440 × Ø 310 mm, 3.0 kg. Made in Germany. Clear, Ice.
Grand Illusion
Coffee table, hand-moulded 4 mm acrylic. 520 × Ø 440 mm, 4.2 kg, max load 10 kg. Made in Germany. Clear, Ice.
Tall Illusion
Side table, hand-moulded 4 mm acrylic. 560 × Ø 320 mm, 4.2 kg. Made in Germany. Clear, Ice.
Fly Fly
Fly swatter in leather and Finnish birch, handmade in Tampere. Designed by Tarmo Likki, 1989. 550 × 140 mm. Made in Finland. Black, Natural Brown and Cognac.

All materials comply with EU standards including REACH and RoHS. All plastics are fully recyclable. Made in Europe. Stocked in Europe. Retail-ready. Trade partners receive access to product photography, product information, technical documentation and marketing assets.

Want Essey in your store?

Good. We work with selected design stores, concept stores, e-shops, architects, interior studios, hotels and other partners worldwide.

Tell us who you are and where you sell. Once your trade account is approved, we’ll send you our wholesale price list, terms and everything you need to get started.

And if you are an experienced importer or distributor, we would like to hear from you too. If you already represent established design, furniture or lifestyle brands and see potential for Essey in your market, tell us which brands you work with, which region you cover and where your strengths lie.

For the right partner, we are happy to explore long-term distribution opportunities and build new markets together.

Beautiful things belong together. Make room for Essey.

Apply for a trade account

Contact

Trade & Distribution Enquiries

[email protected]

+420 608 000 052

Monday–Friday, 9:00–17:00 CET

Made
in Europe

Close to its origin.
True to its craft.

Objects
with a story

Simple ideas, shaped into something lasting.

Designed
to stay

Not made for now.
Made to remain.

Less waste
More meaning

From discard to design.

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