Like-minded artisans create home and kitchen accessories
Recently, a new kind of store opened on Kailey’s Way (behind Kinney Drugs) in Hinesburg. It’s a store and studio, featuring items for your home, created with skill and love by artisans from across the country. This store is part of DandyLion, the brainchild of Ashley Farland.
Ashley is a native Vermonter steeped in environmental awareness and powered by enough energy to launch the space shuttle; Ashley Farland is the visionary behind DandyLion. For 15 years, her creativity as a classically trained chef was on display at some of the finest restaurants in New York City. Later, her experience as a private chef for elite New York families kindled a love for luxurious home goods. She returned to Vermont, began experimenting, and DandyLion was born.
In 2021, Ashley decided to create a lifestyle store, where she would create a large percentage of the products she sold, understand the craft behind the products, and honor the ethos of sustainability, reuse, and superb quality.
In May 2023, DandyLion found roots off Route 116 in Hinesburg, Vermont, where customers can see exactly how each pillow, blanket, and other products are designed and produced by hand.
Most recently DandyLion and Pompanoosuc Mills have collaborated on a new collection that will be sold exclusively in their mid-Atlantic showrooms.
Ashley stated, “I am thrilled to announce DandyLion will be collaborating with Pompanoosuc Mills, a 50-year-old family-run New England company known for building forever furniture. Both our companies blend exquisite quality with sustainable practices – a challenge that few companies have successfully achieved. It’s a natural fit.”
Pompanoosuc Mills will be featuring DandyLion pillows in four of their showrooms, beginning in May: Philadelphia, Concord, Hanover, and Burlington stores.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the DandyLion showroom in Hinesburg – originally designed pillows and wooden products, as well as the curated artisan products, are not to be missed.
You have to get past the sheer good looks of DandyLion products to recognize the spark of genius in each. Hold it. Use it. From unique throw pillows to stunning kitchen ceramics to custom desk accessories you will find original design, exceptional quality, and sustainability.
DandyLion crafts products by hand from the best materials and controls every step of the process.
Each small batch of products emerges with its own individuality.
DandyLion textiles are made from the finest surplus and deadstock fabrics discarded by world-leading couture houses and European mills. Wood products are sourced locally from responsibly managed forests.
So, drop by and hug a sturdily soft pillow. Glide a blade effortlessly through a sausage. Watch light dance from a handblown lamp.
