Shelton Metal in ELLE Canada
“12 Covetable Pieces On These Cool Designers’ Wish Lists”
ELLE Canada, August 2026
A recent favorite press sighting: our Sea Spreader Set of 4 has found its way onto the pages of ELLE Canada, selected by Vancouver-based interior designer and art advisor Laurenn Machin for the magazine’s roundup of the objects currently topping designers’ wish lists.
What made the feature particularly special was reading why she chose them.
Machin described being drawn to pieces that feel “collected rather than overly designed,” comparing the spreaders to something that might have been discovered in a tidal pool. She also shared the memory of a large barnacle her father found years ago—giving her connection to these small, sea-worn forms an unexpectedly personal quality.
She imagined using the spreaders while entertaining and then simply leaving them on the table afterward, allowing them to exist as objects in their own right.
It’s an interpretation we love.
Our Sea Spreaders began as hand-carved forms inspired by the strange little treasures, shells, fragments, and relics that might wash ashore. They are functional objects, but they have always been intended to feel slightly discovered, as though they already carried a story before arriving at the table.
To see that exact quality recognized by someone encountering the pieces from the outside feels particularly meaningful.
And being called covetable by ELLE, truly an honor!
Another treasure for the archive.
