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An ancient tool for modern people.

With a shape unchanged since early civilization, the traditional woodcraft mallet remains as useful as ever. We kept the heft and made it beautiful, turning it into art you'll love to look at, hold, and use.

Crush herbs and florals

Smash garlic

Make a design statement

Roll out dough

Crack open crab and shellfish

Crush ice

Pound or tap nails and tacks

Smash cookies or crackers

Crush nuts

Meet our mallets.

For the artful home.

Tools should look beautiful in your home as much as they enhance how you live in it. Whether crushing nuts or rolling dough, our new mallets bring style and practicality to everyday tasks. Artfully crafted from hard maple, they're designed for a lifetime of cracking, pounding, rolling, smashing, and crushing.

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A mallet in every room. 

Designed for cross-use in the kitchen, studio, garden, and more.

Mallets for every use.

Astro Mallet XSAstro Mallet XS
Astro Mallet LAstro Mallet L

Mallets for every use.

Calla Mallet MCalla Mallet M
Calla Mallet LCalla Mallet L

Mallets for every use.

Bump Mallet LBump Mallet L
Figure Mallet SMFigure Mallet SM
Figure Mallet LFFigure Mallet LF
Calla Mallet SCalla Mallet S
Astro Mallet XSAstro Mallet XS
Astro Mallet LAstro Mallet L
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Calla Mallet MCalla Mallet M
Calla Mallet LCalla Mallet L
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Bump Mallet LBump Mallet L
Figure Mallet SMFigure Mallet SM
Figure Mallet LFFigure Mallet LF
Calla Mallet SCalla Mallet S
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Curate your own collection.

Collect, arrange, and rearrange your mallets with plants, books, art, or any of your favorite things. Make a simple statement with a single mallet, or create a smashing ensemble. We love to group them with everyday objects for striking still-life arrangements.

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ABOUT

Artist and maker

I’m Diane Hellner. I enjoy using well-made, well-designed tools where art and usefulness go hand in hand. As an artist, maker, and someone who loves to cook, I keep several of our chic new mallets around my home and studio—for whatever projects come into play.

As seen in Uppercase magazine

We're featured in the current issue #62, July-August-September 2024, in the article "Domestic Arts" pg. 100.

Made in the USA

Designed in Michigan; custom-crafted from hard maple and hand finished in Indiana.

Woman-owned

Functional art for your living and working spaces, conceptualized in 2016 by artist Diane Hellner.

People Care

Your purchase gives back to support Noah at Central in Detroit, MI.

Planet Care

We actively limit our environmental impact and make sustainable choices from production to shipping to your door.