Journal

About Anna, founder and CEO of ANNA New York Anna Rabinowicz founded the company in 2002 in her grandmother’s basement in Queens, New York. It was a family business and a matriarchy from the very beginning. Her mother and grandmother were in charge of putting the small rubber feet on the bottoms of their agate gemstone coasters.  After Anna’s grandmother passed away, her young daughter, Talia, became involved in the company, helping with design development. Today, ANNA continues to be a female-owned and operated company. Her elegant pieces can often be found in publications like Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, and...

Welcome to the New Normal.  I just finished my first “shelter at home” week; I know others are just beginning.  My biggest revelation is that it caused a refocus almost immediately on what’s important: family, friends and community.  Stanford product designers (a program of which I’m a proud alum) sprang to action, designing DIY masks and 3D-printed ventilator splitters.  And groups of old friends immediately began creating zoom meetups.  This challenging period feels almost like a re-set – a moment in which we needed to stop, assess our lives and our role in the greater world, and decide how we...

I hope you are all doing as well as possible during these challenging and unprecedented times.  At this moment, our primary concern is for the health and safety of our staff, our customers, our suppliers, and our larger community. To do all we can to stop the spread of this virus, we have closed our office, and all employees are working from home.  Fortunately, this allows us a minimum of disruption of service to our customers and partners.  As always, our sales, customer service, and production teams are available by email and phone.  Our 3rd party warehouse continues to function,...