About Us
Everything to do with water asks for care.
We do not follow fashion. We follow time — the time of water’s flow, of metal ageing, of the relationship a thing builds with its owner.
Graffe was founded in Istanbul in 2018 by Ömer Faruk Kumru. A bathroom is the most personal room in the home — the first and last quiet of the day. To find the pieces this room deserves, to bring them together by filtering, and to keep that small: this was the beginning of Graffe.
Today we offer forty pieces across three collections. We do not grow the list; we grow clearer as we narrow it. Each piece passes through a long process of testing and review before entering a collection.
Graffe does not aim to be a large brand. It aims to bring the right piece to the right person. These two, more often than not, are not the same thing.
Four principles.
Material
comes first.
Brass, stainless steel, glass. Every material we choose has its own character, and we honour that character. Cheaper alternatives exist — not for us.
Less but better.
The catalogue is kept short. Two pieces that resemble one another do not sit on the shelves at the same time. Every addition demands a reason.
Detail matters.
The texture of a tap’s rotating ring, the radius of a washbasin, the spray pattern of an overhead shower — these are not the unnoticed; they are what those who notice carry with them.
It improves with time.
A Graffe piece should be more beautiful five years later than it was on day one. It should become the piece of the person who uses it. Achieving that matters more than the quality of the first day.
A single room,
the right pieces.
Graffe regards the bathroom as the most personal room inside the home. Finding the right piece is not the great problem — being able to separate the right from the unnecessary is. Graffe’s work is to do that filtering and present it to you.
Began in Istanbul as a small editorial selection.
3 collections. Each piece passes through a long review process.
Open to visits with or without an appointment.
Not marketing, but content. Not a listing, but a selection.
A short timeline.
Would you like
to see the showroom?
You may visit our Istanbul showroom with or without an appointment and examine Graffe pieces in hand. You may book a one-hour consultation for architectural projects.
