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Wms&Co — pronounced "Williams and Co." — is a home goods company focused on the desk, founded in 2014 by designers Allison Muench Williams and JP Williams in their downtown-Manhattan loft and now run from Saltaire, on Fire Island, New York. The shop carries workspace furnishings, desk accessories, planners and paper, books, home scents, and custom rubber stamps: everyday objects elevated by design and influenced by history, each of them analog, aesthetic, and useful.

Before the shop, the Williamses built the design firm Design MW, established in 1993, earning more than 150 design awards, including the Red Dot "Best of the Best" and Gold Clios, with work held in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum and Columbia University's Butler Library.

As Seen In

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, T Magazine, Monocle, New York Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, Martha Stewart, Vanity Fair, Wallpaper*, Harper’s Bazaar, Condé Nast Traveler, Remodelista, Domino, Garden & Gun, Brides, Core77, InsideHook, Blackbird Spyplane, Design Milk, and Air Mail.

“Wms&Co. gets my Stamp of Approval.”

- Martha Stewart

“A brilliant answer to the ho-hum desk-drawer classic.”

- Monocle

“It will undoubtedly become the best-looking thing on your desk.”

- Vanity Fair

“My favorite Christmas gift...”

- Jenna Lyons

“The crazy beautiful thing I found this week...”

- InStyle

“All the joy of a personalized stamp - with none of the mess.”

- Goop

“For that someone who is eternally—and effortlessly—stylish.”

- Remodelista

“New York’s reliably excellent Wms&Co.”

- Blackbird Spyplane

“This one is really just so cool-looking — a design piece as much as a functional kitchen object.”

- The Strategist, New York Magazine

“Minimal yet warm, ethereal yet solid.”

- Air Mail

“Wms&Co curates with impeccable taste.”

- Reviewer on Thingtesting

“Imagine the typographical possibilities.”

- T Magazine, The New York Times

“It feels really luxurious to write on those blocks, especially with a mechanical pencil.”

- David Stark, in Design Milk

“This month our site started ping ping pinging with orders for desktop planner pads and pencils from Japan made of hinoki wood.”

- Allison Williams in The Wall Street Journal

“You’re only as good as the obscurity of your sources.”

- JP Williams, in Sight Unseen

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From the Archive

  • Monocle, “Inventory / September selection: Chicago ink,” Issue 76, in print. The Self-Inking Stamps, developed by JP Williams
  • A Continuous Lean, Interview with JP Williams · 2012
  • Sight Unseen, “JP Williams, Graphic Designer and Archivist” by Monica Khemsurov. A studio visit with the Amass archive · February 2010
  • Maharam Stories, “A Simple Card” an essay by JP Williams on the quiet design history of the business card

Founders & Studio

Allison Muench Williams and JP Williams, both graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, founded the design firm Design MW in New York in 1993 before opening Wms&Co in 2014. Their design work has earned more than 150 awards, including the Red Dot "Best of the Best" and Gold Clios, and is held in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum and Columbia University's Butler Library. Wms&Co began in their downtown-Manhattan loft; today the shop is run from Saltaire, on Fire Island, New York, where Allison Muench Williams leads the company. JP Williams leads the shop's custom rubber stamp arm, along with Norrmalms Kartongfabrik, the Stockholm box maker he owns, where boxes have been corner-stapled from recycled board since 1916.

Profiles & directories: The One Club for Creativity, A Maker Moment, RISDmade, Thingtesting, Air Mail Shop, and The Shopkeepers.

Press Inquiries

allison@wmscoshop.com
Wms&Co · Saltaire, Fire Island, NY