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Our story
KartiMarket was started by brothers Chris and Jaya, based on the founders' collective experiences working in furniture and product design, charity and fair trade organisations in Asia and South America, as well as in the private sector. Born in Australia to British and Indonesian parents – spending their youth between these three countries quickly led to a passion for travel and a love of visiting markets collecting interesting art and crafts from around the world.
Chris followed his heart and obtained a degree in Industrial Design, cutting his teeth as a product designer in the Netherlands before going freelance in furniture and interior design. Jaya followed his head and started working for the public service in Canberra and then a bank in London. Squeezing in a stint working at an international development charity in Tokyo Jaya became strongly interested in fair trade and subsequently went to Ecuador to work as a volunteer for a fair trade organisation (Camari, now one of our suppliers.)
In 2007, finally finding themselves both in London at the same time and having always dreamed of setting up their own furniture and product design business together, the brothers decided the time was right and KartiMarket was born...
What We Do
We source beautiful, quality, unique, fair trade homeware products from around the world and through UK suppliers. Chris also designs modern, innovative ethical furniture and homeware products (on sale soon) that incorporate the best of local (UK) skills and the best of overseas fair trade products, materials and style, making truly 'world products'.
Our products have real people and stories behind them as opposed to generic, factory made stuff or products without explicit guarantees that they are produced in an ethical manner. We will sell our products through our online webstore here at KartiMarket.com. Our hope is that our products will bring a fresh and vibrant look to your home, so stay tuned as we start to increase our range!
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