Things We Made

Before the houses, we made things worth keeping.

It started at home. In a family of seven, if something broke, you fixed it.

BROTHERS RICH began in 2013 with three brothers, John, Jim and Paul, making things together. Furniture, bicycles, crab mallets. Different objects, one idea: make them thoughtfully and make them well.

Overhead view of a workbench with BROTHERS RICH crab mallets and canvas totes, and Paul sketching in a notebook

Paul Eric Rich at his workbench among bicycles

With an eye for style and quality, and a desire to create collaboratively, we take an idea and craft it into a beautiful reality.

The Charleston

Paul rode a vintage Raleigh to work every day. The Charleston grew out of that bike: a vintage Raleigh DL-1 frame, built to look and feel like the track bikes of the 1920s.

Months went into finding modern components that perform well and still suit the frame.

Runner-up, Outdoors category, Garden & Gun Made in the South Awards, 2013. Profiled in Baltimore Style, 2015.

A rider on The Charleston on a downtown Charleston street

A rider carrying The Charleston over one shoulder at the Battery

Leather-wrapped handlebars of The Charleston against an old stucco wall

A rider sitting on the Battery railing beside The Charleston

The Charleston leaning against an old stucco wall downtown

The Charleston, a BROTHERS RICH bicycle, seen from the side

BROTHERS RICH lettering on the top tube of The Charleston

A hand on the braided leather handlebar wrap of The Charleston

The Charleston photographs by Paul King and Nicky Lubis.

In the shop

Boat flag poles came off the same bench, shaped and finished by hand.

Paul Eric Rich finishing a boat flag pole at his shop bench

Paul at the shop bench with a boat flag pole and an American flag

Hands holding a wooden flag pole handle in the shop

Paul sighting down a finished flag pole in the shop

Shop photographs by Paul King.

Also on the bench

A hand-turned crab mallet with a brass band, and the Timber Tote for carrying firewood. The mallets started as drawings, the same way a house does. These pieces aren't available right now.

Four crab mallets resting on their section drawings, with printed cloth bags

A BROTHERS RICH crab mallet with a brass band on a striped wood board, beside stone crab claws

Crab mallet parts on the shop bench, with handles and heads lined up

Two BROTHERS RICH crab mallets laid on their printed cloth bags on a wood floor

Metal tins and round patterned pieces laid out beside BROTHERS RICH canvas totes

A BROTHERS RICH Timber Tote loaded with firewood beside a wood pile

A Timber Tote with its BROTHERS RICH leather label resting on split firewood

Stitched leather handle and BROTHERS RICH leather label on a canvas Timber Tote

A vintage sewing machine beside a canvas BROTHERS RICH bag

The scale changed. The idea didn't.

The Charleston was designed around one person's ride to work. Your home should be designed around how you live, a space that is uniquely you.

See a shop designed around one owner's motorcycles →

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