The Falls, founded by Leong Ong and Philip Leeming, is a creative project rooted in reverence for the forgotten and beautifully strange. Celebrating discarded lifestyle items as living archives, each piece carries memory and reinvention. Ong jokes, “blah blah EMBROIDERY,” but behind the humor lies intense research and craftsmanship. With a collector’s eye and love for vintage, The Falls revives overlooked items, from sofas to shell suits, into striking showpieces. Blending tradition with irreverence, every design becomes part relic, part rebellion, ready for re-use. The result is a one-of-a-kind collection that fuses eras, contradictions, and the absurd beauty of discarded fashion and lifestyle items reimagined.

Since refocusing from an archival design resource to a direct-to-consumer model in 2021, The Falls has focused on working closely with small-scale highly skilled artisans in India for textiles and embroidery, and closer to home for re-worked jewelry and furniture. These relationships have guided the way we design and produce, season after season.

We’ve built something meaningful with our partners—growing together, learning from one another, and staying closely connected through regular visits to each workshop. Knowing the people who craft our pieces is an essential part of what we do.