THIS purveys products for the home: tabletop, textiles, arts and artifacts. We specialize in goods that are both singular and yet particularly useful.

Collaborating closely with artisans throughout india, we together transition indigenous discoveries toward a twenty-first century context. We focus on the remote and far flung because these are areas uncovered by the design establishment, and, because that's where the best stuff is.

If today’s essential medium is the consumer good, we are listening, informed collectively by developing ritual cultures and technologically overripe societies. Soliciting utterly nonessential essentials to the discerning few and free-thinking masses, we strive to affect those who crave, above all, the sublime

Dan Nation, founder

Seeking to marry the refined and the debased, the trained with the intuitive, timelessness and right-on-time-ness, Dan Nation cultivates the essential fruition that each material and moment aspires to become.

Dan spent many years delving into other matters at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, later moving on to more serious matters at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where he received a Masters of Architecture. A short time thereafter, Dan was in flight around the globe to far off cities and villages with hard to pronounce names, receiving an education of an altogether different sort.  

The rest, is THIS.

THIS / Dan Nation are oftentimes hired for design and consulting and projects. Previous collaborations have included Comme des Garcons, the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, as well as a small number of Private Label commissions.

Please direct all inquiries including employment and internships to: nicepeople@dbaTHIS.com