Welcome to Kanti

Namaste everyone,

For the launch of our new blog, I’d like to share a small version of the Kanti story. In just over a year, Ernestine, my mother, has done an amazing job taking this project from conception to creation. Since then, Kanti has launched a website, built relationships with vendors and clients, and started selling unique gifts to people like you. We are excited to be able to reach out to our Kanti community on the blogosphere, and hope you’ll visit us often.

A little over a year ago, Ernestine got an idea. At around Christmas time, she said to me, “I want to start a business.” “Great Mom! That’s terrific!”, I said. I couldn’t resist the follow up question of,  “what kind of business?” She said she wasn’t quite sure yet, but she asked me to start looking around in India where I was living at the time for some inspiration.  Turns out she did have an idea; I just didn’t know it yet. Walking around my village, I quickly started to see some things I really liked. I also started to meet some local craftsmen and women and was inspired by their stories of how they got where they were today. We thought, “how great would it be to sell beautiful things from around the world that share a story?” Together, my mom and I worked long hours in opposite time zones. Sometimes, just as I’d wake up, I’d get an email from her asking my opinion on something before she went to bed. In spite of the global communication difficulties, we were able to get this project going.

Slowly, we started collecting pieces from India, Thailand, and recently Nepal. We decided on the name Kanti because it means beauty in Sanskrit, one of the oldest and most influential ancient languages in the world. While I was looking for new things or writing pieces for the site, my mom was working hard making pieces, contacts, and putting the whole project into production. She has had a truly inspiring enthusiasm throughout this project and I am honored so involved in making her idea a reality.

We here at Kanti love the idea of bringing cultures together and helping people with modest and creative backgrounds showcase their work to a wider audience. We also love sharing beautiful goods from around the world with you, our Kanti community.

We are very pleased to be launching our new blog simultaneously with the revamp of our website. We hope you will continue coming back here for more stories, inspirations, and whims on what we here at Kanti aim to do.  Check out our new collections, facebook page, and tweets on twitter as we continue trying to build our Kanti community. Go ahead, Be Beautiful, Be Kanti.

Cheers,

Coco Lammers
Co-Founder, Kanti Goods