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Tools, considered.
Reference-grade audio, accessories, and quiet, durable everyday tools — engineered in-house, finished by hand.
Featured
Three things, made well.
A short shelf, by design. Every product earns its place through years of prototyping and the kind of testing that wears out the people doing it.
Audio
Example Pro Headphones
Carry
Field Bag 18L
Workspace
Studio Desk Lamp
Our story
A studio of twelve. Built for the long term.
We started Example in a Brooklyn workshop in 2014 because we couldn’t buy the tools we wanted. A decade later, we still ship a small shelf — refined slowly, by the same people who designed it.
12
Years building
34
Countries shipped
98%
Five-star reviews
Monocle
Wirecutter
Wallpaper*
The Verge
Kinfolk
Fast Company
“
Example builds the kind of objects you find yourself using every day without thinking about them — which, in a category this loud, is the highest compliment I can give.
Reviewer’s Notebook, Monocle · April 2026
Field notes
From the workshop.
Process, prototypes, and the long, quiet work of getting things right. Updated about twice a month.
Process · 8 min read
Anodising aluminium in three passes, by hand.
Why we stopped chasing finishes and started counting the parts we threw away.
Policy · 5 min read
A lifetime warranty is a design constraint.
The forty-seven decisions that change when you have to fix it forever.
Philosophy · 12 min read
In praise of quiet tools.
The case for objects that disappear into the work, not advertise it.
Built to outlast the trend cycle.
Free shipping over $75. 30-day returns. A two-year warranty on every order — and a lifetime promise on the bags.