Our Story
Objects Worth Making
Founded in Los Angeles in 2008, Graf Lantz began with a roll of Merino wool and a shared conviction that everyday objects deserve to be made well. Holger Graf brought a structural engineer's rigor, rooted in the German Bauhaus belief that form and function are inseparable. Daniel Lantz, shaped by years immersed in Japan’s Shokunin craft traditions, brought a deep respect for the concept of less, but chosen. What emerged is a design house that believes the best objects earn their place, and then stay there.
Our Materials
Material Convictions
We work with a small, deliberate selection of natural materials — Merino wool, Vachetta leather, and cotton canvas. Each one chosen for what it does and how it ages. Wool that wears in with character. Leather patina that deepens with touch and time. Canvas that softens with washing. These aren't imperfections. They're proof that something real was used.
Our Commitment
Built to Last Is a Sustainability Statement
We've been making things from natural, renewable materials in Los Angeles since 2008, long before sustainability became a marketing category. It lives in the material choices, the local production, the zero-waste cutting practices, the refusal to make things that are meant to be replaced.
At Home in LA
Close Craft
We design and produce in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, where a tight-knit team and a circle of trusted local partners have been making things together for years. We share the same obsessions: provenance, construction, longevity. You can feel it in every piece that leaves the studio, made to hold up to daily life without asking much in return.
Meet The Founders
The Minds Behind the Craft
"At Graf Lantz, our pieces are made to show up in real life—in the quiet moments, the messy ones, and the ones you come back to again and again."
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