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The Minimalist Brand Directory has been created to help you find the best minimalist brands, for whichever category you are searching them for, from sustainable clothing brands to space-saving fitness equipment. The brands to the directory are hand-picked solely by Minimalist Products. By using the navigation below you can go straight to the category most relevant for you.
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Are you looking for a coffee maker that doesn´t require electricity, is easy to clean, fits effortlesly into your backpack and enables you to brew a great-tasting cup of coffee in under two minutes? If so, AeroPress could be an excellent choice.
Le Creuset has almost a century of experience creating high-quality kitchenware made in France. Perhaps best known for its buy-it-for-life, cast iron pots and pans.
A long running Swiss-based brand, keeping precision, quality and innovation as their cornestones. Born as the creator of world-famous Swiss-Army Knives, today Victorinox also offers cutlery, watches, travel gear and fragrance.
Klean Kanteen was founded as a health and environment conscious alternative to plastic and lined aluminum bottles. Since the original products, the company has widened its offerings to cover ia. lunch boxes and straws.
Due to the frustration of having lukewarm water on bottles, Hydro Flask was established. Like Klean Kanteen, Hydro Flask is also highly focused on health and environmental factors, and carries multiple other categories of products.
With a purpose “Liberate and nourish the zest for life”, Vitamix has developed and produced blending solutions, ensuring their performance and longevity. At the same time, this centennial is helping to limit food waste.
By successfully blending design and function, this coffee-maker brand has conquered the world by providing pure brew as the coffee only comes in contact with natural materials of glass and the paper in the filter.
Hario is best known for its heatproof glassware and household items. Direct translation of the company name is “The King of Glass”. What else do you need to know? Perhaps that only Hario has a heatproof glass factory in Japan.
Can’t resist cookies or your phone and fail to get work done? kSafe might be the solution for you! Their lineup of time-lock containers provide research-backed method to counter unhealthy cravings and distractions.
Cupertino-based company known for design, elegance and interoperability of its devices and software.
Anker provides innovative and reliable accessories for wide category of devices. A go-to brand for many digital nomads.
Manufacturer of high-end AV equipment with close to a century of experience and distinguishably elegant Scandinavian aesthetics.
One of the pinnacles of germaneering that brings order, clarity and simplicity to its appliances. Braun´s produt designs have served as an inspiration to many others, including Apple.
With efficiency in its DNA, Dyson has rethought household appliances with also having a strong focus in sustainability aspects.
Genelec provides high-quality speakers to audiovisual professionals and home users alike who appreciate pinpoint accurate sound and award-winning, minimalist design. These long-lasting and environmentally friendly speakers are made in Finland.
Grovemade believe workspace should be calm, mindful and peaceful. This echoes in their products that are designed and made in Portland, Oregon. Grovemade´ s versatile product lineup that use a lot of natural materials covers items such as desks, monitor stands, trays and pens.
Framework´s mission is to empower you with great products that can be easily customized, upgraded and repaired, increasing longevity and freducing e-waste in the process. To open and change components to a Framework laptop you only need a single screwdriver that is included with each of their model.
This company makes phones for going light. Using a Light Phone can help you to take back control and be more intentional in the middle of this hyper-connected world we live in.
Fit an entire library of books into Kindle, a compact e-reader that features a long-lasting battery and paper-like, eye friendly display.
This Copenhagen-based watch company proves that attention to detail doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Thanks to their direct-to-consumer practice they are able to provide timeless, acclaimed and responsible Danish design with accessible pricing.
Mudita is a tech company with a mission to make mobile phones and other devices that put your physical and mental well-being first. Best known for their minimalist and award-winning phone, Mudita Pure.
Projects Watches are made for creators, by creators. This company considers that art can be brought to everyday life by experiencing it through their timepieces. Projects Watches also strive to take watch design to grounds where it hasn´t been before. Many of their designs are likely to please an eye of a person fond of minimalist design language.
Punkt. is a Swiss-based company that was founded to provide an alternative for those feeling overwhelmed with the modern lifestyle led by advanced technology. Punkt. aims to help its users to adopt good habits and become less distracted. Punkt´s minimalist and timeless products have been featured in many museums, including MoMa in New York.
Driving inspiration from the founders´native country of Denmark, Skagen offers slim and minimalist watches. Nowadays their product lineup also includes jewelry. The company is named after the Denmark´s northernmost town.
The Roost stand was created to drastically increase the ergonomics of laptop users. Made of highly sophisticated and lighweight materials in the USA. Can also be easily folded to bring it where ever the work is done.
Audo was born after two renowned Danish design brands, By Lassen and MENU combined forces. Audo not only offer products from its origin companies´ portfolios but also innovate new pieces, taking inspiration from both Danish and global influences while nurturing their ambitions for purposeful, high-quality products with a soft minimalism design language.
Timeless and eco-friendly design, high quality, made in Finland. These are some of the attributes linked to Artek. This iconic brand´s best known product is the stackable Stool 60 made of birch and designed by Alvar Aalto. The stool has been in production ever since its production started in the 1930s.
Dan and Sarah Mirth needed an office desk that was good looking as well as highly functional and efficient so they decided to make one. Soon after they realized they weren´ t the only ones with the need and thus Artifox was born. The company describes their design philosophy as “mindful, clever, subtle, symbiotic and lasting”. The products are locally manufactured in St. Louis, USA.
This luxury brand is still family owned and run by the son of the founder. Ettinger designs and manufactures their products in the UK and uses EU-based suppliers to source their leather for its goods, ranging from wallets to bags and cases and a wide range of accessories. As a great sign of Ettinger´s reputation, the company has been granted a Royal Warrant. This warrant can only be granted after a company has supplied the Royal Household regularly for at least five years.
Fritz Hansen, named after its founder, provides timeless, high-quality and minimalist interior design pieces. The brand has collaborated with many renowned designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm. Some of Fritz Hansen´s most iconic products include Series 7 and Egg chairs.
This brand´s leather products are designed with a goal of never going out of fashion and helping your day to go smoothly. Their obsession is to keep the designs as simple as possible while also ensuring high quality and functionality. Harber London´s product lineup – from wallets to bags to cable organizers and many other categories are handmade in Spain.
HAY believes that good design is everyone’s right. Since the inception of the company, HAY has collaborated with great designers from around the world and introduced minimalist, versatile and high-quality products that draw inspiration from the world of art, architecture and fashion.
Knoll designs and produces furniture to both home and office environments. The brand many minimalist design classics on their portfolio from the likes of desginers such as Eero Saarinen and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. One of Knoll´s most iconic products is the Barcelona chair and ottoman.
Muji was created to rationalize manufacturing processes to provide simple, affordable products with good quality. To this day the company still carries the same principles with its wide assortment of goods, from furniture to bathroom items.
NOOE (abbreviation of Never Odd Or Even) is a love letter to modern work. The company’s office furniture and accessories are made of grade 1 solid wood, space-grade aluminium and premium vegan suede.
NOOE was awarded the RED Dot Design Award in 2022 for their Config 101 Desk Organisation Set.
Nordic Knots have paired function and aesthetics with Scandinavian sensibility and thoughtfulness. Their rugs and curtains stand the test of time and can help you to create a harmonious living space.
Starting from producing fireproof metal baskets, Steelcase has evolved to become one of the leading providers of professional-grade office furniture that carry a minimalist design language.
LastObject´s mission is to eliminate single-use items by coming up with reusable alternatives that are also sustainable. Their main products include reusable swabs, tissues and facial pads.
“They´ll fight over it when you´re dead.” Saddleback Leather´s slogan reflects their product lineup: over-engineered leather products from travel bags to wallets and many other, covered with 100 year warranty. The company´s products are handmade in Mexico.
Trayvax started as a company producing minimalist and longlasting wallets but have since widened their offerings to many other products, such as belts and lanyards. Trayvax´s products are designed and made in the US and come with a 65 year warranty.
Looking for household items that have simplicity, space saving and design in mind? Yamazaki offers a wide variety of them, anywhere from kitchen to bathroom to office.
Flipbelt provides a simple and discrete way to store the items you need to have with you during an exercise.
SPIBelt gives the opportunity to carry personal items with you in a bounce-free manner.
Fitting Fitness Into Life, PRX Performance provide space-saving equipment. Best known for their foldable power racks.
What started as an observation of dumbbell-cluttered workout spaces realized as PowerBlock, a series of adjustable dumbbells that have stood a test of time, both in commercial and home gym settings.
Simple and compact, yet very versatile form of training gear, TRX suspension system is one of the most common pieces of gym equipment that you can also get affordably for yourself.
Able Carry´s mission is to engineer the best everyday backpacks to supercharge your day. With their minimalist backpacks and accessories the company has focused on to provide good fit, organization capabilities and high durability. Every Able Carry backpack comes with a lifetime guarantee.
The mission of Aer is to make the best travel gear for wherever life takes you. At the core of this San Fransisco-based company´s DNA are simplicity, utility and durability.
From the realization of the absence of merino wool in the footwear industry, Allbirds was born. They are best known for their shoes but nowadays also produce other forms of clothing, in the very same spirit of simplicity, comfort and sustainability.
ALPAKA´s durable products are minimal and made for urban life but aren’t scared of a bit more outdoorsy travels either. ALPAKA plants a tree for every bag purchased and donates 1% of their revenue to charities.
This Stockholm-based company exists to provide meaningful essentials with zero compromise, full transparency and lifecycle responsibility. Asket may be just the perfect fit if you want a world with less clutter, less waste and less smoke and mirrors.
Passionate about the outdoors, Columbia´s motto, “It´s perfect. Now make it better” guide the company to this day. For the company, the outdoors is not only a playground, but also a place for empowerment and their commitment to protect.
These US-made socks are guaranteed for life, for various types of wearers and activities.
Everlane is a clothing brand focused on exceptional quality, ethical factories and radical transparency. Especially unique is their way to provide cost breakdown for each of their products so you know exactly what you’re paying for.
Arc´teryx is guided by obsessive, precise, intuitive design and production. Further, they put an emphasis on timeless quality and simplcity to provide unrivaled performance.
This Sweden-based company provides functional, durable and timeless outdoor clothing and equipment. They also have a commitment to make nature more accessible and the utmost respect for the environment.
Company with no-compromise travel equipment designed to perform, what ever the conditions. Matador focuses on selecting only the necessary features, eliminating everything else.
The objective of North-89 is to bring functionality to sneakers. Their products have drawn inspiration from Scandinavian weather conditions and are made to withstand them.
Many of their minimalist designs are water-resistant. The shoes, made of high-quality material, designed in Sweden and manufactured in Portugal in a family-owned factory.
Pakt provides minimalist travel gear built to last, while striving to become as environmentally and socially responsible as possible. Pakt´s products are shipped in 100% plastic-free packaging.
Founded by a rock climber, outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia is guided by their values: building the best product, causing no unnecessary harm, using business to protct nature and developing new ways to do things.
Peak Design provides radical travel and camera gear for the detail-obsessed. Their products are brung to life through crowdfunding which doesn’t only give their customers great access to the design process but also fosters innovation.
Stiksen stands behind an idea that excellent quality make great headwear, not the big logotypes. 100% organic GOTS-certified cotton and recycled materials are used in making company’s long-lasting caps and beanies.
Simplicity, made even better. The motto of Uniqlo encapsulates well what the company´s products are about, along the terms thoughtful, ingenious, comfortable, functional and long-lasting. Although their garment can be subtle, Uniqlo is hard to not be noticed, thanks to its reputation and over 2000 outlets around the world.
Unlike many other 100% waterproof shoes, minimalist Vessis are also breathable. And lightweight. And vegan. According to the brand, their shoes are also made with 30% less water, 600% less energy consumption and 97% less material trim waste than those with conventional practices.
What started from a lack of compact tools on a holiday trip lead to a birth of one of the leading multitool companies. Backed with a 25-year limited warranty.
Benchmade focuses on innovation, customer needs, responsible business ethics and operations in order to provide products of the highest quality. Benchmade provides a limited lifetime warranty on its products.
An icon ingrained in American culture. Zippo´s Windproof Lighter comes with a lifetime warranty.
First targeted for the public safety sector, rugged and reliable Maglite products have gained widespread popularity. Not only providing solutions from civilians´ EDC to law enforcement, Maglite has also been honoured by design and art museums in Japan and Germany.
One of the pioneers of the right-to-repair community, iFixit nowadays also provide their own tool kits which have been warmly welcomed by both professional repair shops and those individuals who just want keep their devices operational, away from stressing the environment.
A go-to brand for the tools useful for repairing and maintaining your bicycle.
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