The Flower Valley Handmade studio is run by a Kiwi family from their home in Bavaria, in Germany. The studio includes a small pounamu workshop “Phill’s Whare”, which is perched up on the roof of our townhouse. It is in this little studio that the precious New Zealand stone is cut and shaped into the taonga (treasures) that are sold.

The studio is possibly the only working Pounamu workshop in Germany.

Stone is sourced directly from New Zealand rivers and beaches, either from friends and fellow collectors who live there, or by us ourselves when we make out trips back to Aotearoa to visit family and friends.

The studio has relationships with kaitiaki (Gaurdians) of pounamu sources at the Arahura and around Hokitika. Pounamu is sourced ethically and with kaitiaki consent.