Birthdays are funny.
You start by planning a sale, then suddenly find yourself looking through old photos, old sketches, old product sheets, wondering where all the time went.
Three years ago, onebytwo was a workshop with more questions than answers, and two founders trying to figure out whether people would actually buy what we were making.
Three years later, we're still figuring things out. But now we have a few more tools, a few more stories, and definitely a few more products.
And as we celebrate our third birthday, we found ourselves asking a simple question:
Which pieces have stayed with us the longest?
Not necessarily because they were the newest. Or the fanciest. Or the most photographed. But because people kept coming back to them.
The first on that list is undoubtedly the Big Wheels Trolley.
When we launched it, we thought it would be a supporting character. Something useful. Functional. Helpful. Turns out, homes had other plans. Over the years, we've seen it become a bar cart, a coffee station, a serving trolley, a tea station, and occasionally, a place to temporarily dump everything that doesn't have a home. It taught us one of our biggest design lessons: the pieces that work hardest are often the ones you don't think about first.
And because we clearly have a thing for trolleys, we eventually introduced the Drift Cart— a softer, wood-forward cousin that brings the same versatility into everyday routines.
Then there's the Fold Chair.
Simple. Compact. Uncomplicated. The kind of chair that quietly shows up when guests arrive, gets pulled into a dining setup, finds a place in a study corner, and somehow always proves useful. We loved it enough to revisit it years later and create Fold 2.0 for the Sabha collection, adding brass inlay details while keeping everything else that made it work in the first place. Some designs don't need reinvention. Just another chapter.
There's also the H-Block Chair. One of those pieces that has earned its place over time. It's bold without trying too hard, comfortable without looking oversized, and somehow finds itself at home in spaces that are completely different from one another. Every time we think we've moved on to newer designs, someone reminds us why they loved the H-Block in the first place.
The same goes for our Diwan Low Chair from the Sabha collection. It was never designed to be loud. It was designed to slow you down. To encourage a different way of sitting, gathering, and spending time together. We've received some of our most heartfelt feedback on this piece - not because of what it looks like, but because of how it makes people feel. That's always been our favourite kind of compliment.
And then there are the little pieces. The Jumbo Elephants, Bud Vases, Turtle Bells and all the tiny objects that somehow find their way into gifting lists year after year. They're proof that sometimes joy comes in surprisingly small packages. Looking back, we've realised something.
People rarely buy furniture because it's furniture. They buy it because of what happens around it. The trolley that becomes part of every party. The chair that always gets claimed first. The vase that makes a corner feel complete. The swing that becomes everyone's favourite seat.
The products may start in our workshop, but they truly come alive in your homes.
So this birthday, while we're celebrating three years of onebytwo, we're also celebrating the pieces that have grown with us. The favourites. The classics. The unexpected bestsellers.
If you've been thinking about adding a little onebytwo to your space, consider this your sign. After all, birthdays are meant for gifts.
And this year, we're doing the gifting.
