About Omoe

Omoe is a vessel shaped by elemental forces. Its geometry is hexagonal, a form drawn from basalt and honeycomb, chosen for its quiet strength. The shell is recycled aluminium — enduring and resistant to time — clad in timber or powder-coated in the colour of your choice. Inside, the seating is river-salvaged tōtara: warm, storied, and welcoming to the body.

Within the hollow wall cavity sits pumice, a volcanic stone spat from ancient eruptions and filled with air. Light yet resilient, pumice slows the passage of heat and cold, allowing water to hold its temperature, and the body to linger.

The name Omoe weaves two threads. Ono — six in te reo Māori — speaks to the vessel’s six-sided form. Moe — sleep, rest, dream — recalls Te Wai ā-moe, the crater lake on Mt. Ruapehu that inspires the sense of stillness, dormant power, and renewal.

Omoe carries this sense — a space for immersion, for reflection, for the intervals between waking and dreaming — a place to recover, to refresh and to replenish.