About Agraria

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Agraria was founded in 1970 by San Francisco interior designers, Stanford Stevenson and Maurice Gibson who envisioned fragrant products as essential and complementary design elements for their clients' San Francisco homes. They believed that like the choice of a Biedermeier table, an Eames chair or a Viking Professional range, the way in which a home smells speaks to the overall aesthetics of its inhabitants. Whether a mansion or an apartment, a “home” is not complete without the punctuation of a signature scent. <br><br> With that in mind, Stevenson and Gibson created Agraria, which means “beautiful flowers growing in the fields.” Their debut product was their classic handmade potpourri, first tossed in the back room of their intimate San Francisco shop on Taylor Street. Full of flowers, herbs and spices, this layered, mysterious, fragrance became known as Bitter Orange. To this day it remains Agraria’s signature scent and is as modern and provocative today as it was 50 years ago. <br><br> From its inception, Agraria’s home products were created for the discerning. Classic yet current, all-natural, vegan, and qualitative in every aspect, Agraria was and is way ahead of it time in creating luxe home products that are environmentally correct. While one can get lost in nostalgia and tradition, it is the current relevance of Agraria’s products and their applications that make them so timeless.