While our products evoke American and European nostalgia, the design and functionality have been developed with utmost care. In addition to the popular HIGHTIDE Diary planners, there are a variety of product lines within HIGHTIDE including Penco, Nähe, New Retro, Attaché, Grains de Sable, Duram, Butler, Re-Standard… each with its own particular style. We also offer daily essentials from various Japanese makers, their use ranging from office, to school, to home; from leather glasses cases to playful stickers. The store is inspired by a local stationery store that always existed near a school, a place familiar to anyone who grew up in Japan. In these small stores, shelves were crammed with notebooks, pencils, erasers, pen cases, cheap sweets and toys. For students with little pocket money, these stores stood as a place to hang out, alone or with friends. At HIGHTIDE STORE DTLA we hold exhibitions, workshops, and highlight Japanese makers and artists, hoping to create an environment similar to such “Bunboh-gu-ya.” Anyone with a little pocket money can come find something to cheer up or fill the bill. Friends may become family in the outspread city of Los Angeles.
