ESTIA
Brand Story Design Direction · 2026
The story before the screen

Estia is a place you walk into.

A shelf full of colour. A flask that fits the hand. A conversation at the counter.
Estia makes objects for the everyday: carried, poured from, set on the table, lived with. This new home is where all of it comes together, and where the story keeps going.

The Estia storefront — logo on the shop window
01 · The brand

A design-led home living brand.

Dinnerware, kitchen and home. Objects made to earn their place in the everyday. Beautiful, useful, and built to be reached for again and again.

The home world is quiet and earthy: warm stoneware, natural materials, tones that settle into a room and stay.

02 · The heritage

Strong wholesale roots, now scaled into retail.

Estia grew up in wholesale, earning shelf space across the country before opening its own doors. Today it runs a balanced retail and wholesale model, with production and logistics kept firmly in-house.

01
Successful retail launch
02
Balanced retail & wholesale
03
Reinforced governance
04
100% controlled production
05
Owned logistics
A brand within the brand

Drinkware, in full colour.

Save the Aegean is Estia's flagship: bold, playful and expressive, with a visual world all its own. Where the home lines stay earthy and calm, drinkware turns the volume up: pattern, colour and personality on every bottle, tumbler and flask.

30%+ market share in the drinkware category, a category the brand helped define.
03 · The turn

From wholesale success to a brand people love.

A customer browsing the colourful drinkware wall in store

Proven at scale

Product-market fit, already earned. Millions of pieces
in daily use across Greek homes.

Inside an Estia store — home and kitchen display

Closer to the people who use it

A direct relationship with customers, no counter in between. Knowing them, and being known.

A table set with Estia glassware and linens

Building something lasting

Unlocking margin and brand equity, turning everyday objects
into a brand people return to.

04 · Who it's for

A design-aware shopper, and the moments she buys for.

Estia's customer is largely a woman aged 18–54, living an urban, active daily life. She values good design, everyday practicality and the small upgrades that make a home feel considered, and she shops across three distinct moments.

Shopper 18–54, mainly female
Lifestyle Urban living, active daily life
Values Design, practicality & small everyday upgrades
The Estia shopper — out shopping with coffee in hand
Occasions
Personal lifestyleHydration, office, daily routines
Kids equipmentSchool, activities
GiftingImpulse, last-minute, seasonal
05 · Where we play

Differentiation vs the competition.

Estia sits in the gap the market leaves open: better value than the premium brands, more design credibility than the value players, and more genuine everyday function than either.

Better price / value

vsPremium brands

More design-led

vsValue players

More functional

vsCompetition
06 · Strategy, made visible

How the strategy shapes the design.

Every strategic pillar has a direct consequence for how the website looks, feels and behaves. This is where the brand plan becomes design decisions.

The role

A home-focused retail unit for a female shopper

In the design

Warm, earthy tones and editorial serif typography set a calm, home-living tone: confident and welcoming rather than loud, speaking directly to a design-aware shopper.

Differentiation

Design-led, yet accessible
and practical

In the design

Generous imagery and product-first layouts show the design quality, while clear pricing, plain language and fast paths to buy keep it approachable, never premium-precious.

Sub-brand

Drinkware as a colourful world of its own

In the design

A dedicated, high-colour drinkware environment breaks from the earthy palette, letting Save the Aegean express its personality without diluting the calm of the home lines.

Expanded occasions

Gifting, bundles & short-stay equipment

In the design

Gift cards, curated sets and combos are surfaced as first-class entry points, with bundling logic built into navigation and product pages, not buried in a category tree.

The vision for the website

Now we bring the store home.

The new website should feel like walking into Estia: warm, tactile, full of colour and life. Everything that follows sets the tone for that feeling: the palette, the type, the imagery.


The mood board

Translating the calm, tactile feeling of the store into the design language of the website.

The palette.

01 · Colour
Linen#EBE9E5
Ink#1D1D1B
Bronze#9A8C60

The type.

02 · Typography
AaAa
Noto Serif Display Editorial · display & headings
Google Sans Interface · body & labels
Tone of voice Warm, useful, quietly confident.

We speak the way the store feels: welcoming, a little playful, never precious. Objects for daily rituals, described plainly and with care.

The imagery.

03 · Mood
At Home — shop-the-look with Estia mugs and tableware
Epoque — vintage-look kitchen appliances
Fjord — minimal ceramic bathroom accessories
Olive grove in Kalamata
Notes from the porcelain studio
Set the table
My Estia — thoughtful gifting
Estia gift card
Bonus · A little extra

The sale label.

On a visit to the Glyfada store, the team raised a question we kept thinking about: how should discounts be shown on the products themselves? It felt like a nice thing to help with so we put together a small proposal.

The aim was to keep the calm, minimal character of the stores intact. Nothing that reads as “foreign,” but a piece that sits in harmony with the space while still carrying the sale message, clearly.

The result is drawn from the stores themselves — their materials, textures and colours: natural light wood, matte-black CNC-cut letters, and a stable metal base.

The Estia sale label standing on a store shelf beside stoneware vases
In context · store shelfBlends with the display, message stays clear
Design specification for the sale label — dimensions, materials and detail views
Design spec · dimensions & materials~18–20 cm · inverted-L profile · rounded corners
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