company with a vision

Our vision is of a product that bridges cultures, brings new sources of beauty into our lives, and opens new markets and opportunities to communities in emerging countries.

We want our customers to enjoy their association with a special product: to know that a story links them with the people and the culture behind the product. A reaffirmation that globalisation is not faceless, bland and heedless, but human and innovative.

We believe in strong personal relationships with our suppliers, all of whom are community-based family-owned factories where craftsmanship remains alive. We work extensively with them to combine their creativity and skills with our knowledge of Western markets and tastes.

We are committed to fair trade while ensuring a commercially viable business, that is in everyone’s long-term interests.

Changing things for the better starts with small, pragmatic steps. For us, producing unique natural surfaces and seeing it applied in your project is one such step.

Paul is a Dutch national and lives in Switzerland
and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles). Lay Koon is
Malaysian and lives in London. Paul has strong
affinities with South America and Lay Koon
continues to have significant links with Asia.

company structure

The primary tasks of Passepartout N.V. are

• overall strategy development and management;
• collection development, sourcing and logistics;
• management of supplier relations.

Nature Squared N.V. is fully focussed on marketing and sales.
Its Swiss branch is located in Jona and operates our administrative hub.