Founded by designer/architects Victor Lefebvre and Mei-Lan Tan, UMÉ is a multidisciplinary design practice that blurs the boundaries between art, craft, and experience. We partner with designers and artisans in California, Paris, Kyoto, Ubud and beyond, to draw upon a range of diverse skills, perspectives, and traditions when making our products. Victor and Mei-Lan formed UMÉ after years of working together in architectural practices where they discovered a shared design ethos for materiality, craft, and technique leading to design, rather than the prevailing norm of design informing craft and technique. That same spirit of curiosity, love of fine details, and a willingness to throw out convention, while honoring tradition, informs everything they do today.
Erode Soap - Jasmine Ylang Ylang
Jasmine Sambac / Ylang Ylang / Willow Bark / Goji Berry Extract/ Mango Butter Erode is a luscious cold-process soap with a unique shape, uniting form and function to add a different kind of beauty to the daily ritual of bathing. Created with an abundance of botanicals, antioxidants, mineral rich clays, and skin-nurturing essential oils to cleanse, hydrate and nourish all skin types. Perfect for daily use. Each Erode is poured and cast by hand. As each batch is unique for each pour, no two are the same. Our small Bouton plate (sold separately) was designed hand in hand to serve as the Erode's designated dish. To use: Brush wet hands or cloth over the soap's surfaces to create lather, release the aromatic essential oils, and reveal the changing slopes.
