Designandgrace.com was launched as the online version of a unique European-style kitchenware store that we opened in 2004 in Grapevine Texas. I was newly arrived "off the boat" from the UK and, having been in the housewares industry (by that I mean first pottery and then later kitchen and cookware products) all my life, I was looking for an interesting challenge. So having traveled all around the globe selling to retail stores from Harrods in London to top stores in Tokyo, Sydney Australia, New York and the Middle East, I wanted to translate some of the experience I had garnered into a store in my new home town. So Design & Grace was born.

In 2010 with a struggling economy we took the decision to concentrate all our resources into an online business and here we are: Designandgrace.com.