Why a house keeps no catalogue
There is no accessible production line beneath the collector tier. There was never going to be.
The usual shape of a design house is a pyramid: a small collectible apex, and beneath it a broad, reproducible range that pays for the apex. It is a sound commercial structure and we have chosen not to adopt it.
Our objection is not to accessibility. It is that the lower range quietly redefines the upper one. Once a house is producing at volume, the collectible pieces become the marketing for the catalogue, and the making follows the margin.
So KAHRUS works only in unique pieces and very small runs: editions of four, six, eight, occasionally twelve. There is nothing beneath them. An enquiry is answered by a person, and often the answer is that the piece you are asking about no longer exists.
Rare, made to last, and built to be collected rather than consumed. That was the whole premise, and a catalogue would have been the first compromise.
