Half zip knitted sweater, £229, Oliver SpencerTake Oliver Spencer’s recently redesigned website, which alongside his current collection of tailored casualwear (and casualised tailoring) offers a glimpse into the designer’s obsession with utilitarian excellence.
Click through to ‘Lifestyle’ and you’ll find garden tools and camping accessories by Niwaki and Snow Peak respectively. The former is the brainchild of sculptor turned arborist Jake Hobson, who created the brand to import tripod ladders and fine pruning tools he’d unearthed in Japan (Niwaki means ‘garden tree’).
And if that sounds niche, check out the bamboo hand rake and other low-tech mini-finds. And bear in mind that Monty Don cites Niwaki as one of his five go-to garden.
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