meet the founder
Photography by Rachael Reid
I’m Rosie, Founder and Creative Director at FARRIER and in late 2023, I envisioned creating a business that combined my lifelong love of antiques, my homeland of England, and a dedication to creating a more sustainable future for our planet. The creation of FARRIER is a love note to myself and a coming home.
I have fond childhood memories spending the weekends exploring antiques shops in the South of England with my mum and watching her decorate our little cottage with unique pieces that she had collected over the years. The walls of the cottage were butter yellow and I still remember the raspberry red Victorian dresser that welcomed us home at the entrance, my mum’s diary with handwritten scribble of our upcoming plans placed on top. She hand sewed French toile curtains and hung beautiful chandeliers that she had picked up at salvage yards we had visited. I still think about the gilded gold framed charcoal life drawing that watched over the dining table.
As a child, she encouraged a creative flair in me that developed throughout my life. I loved books, music, philosophy, dance, travel… anything that allowed me to immerse myself in artistic expression.
In 2014, I moved to Canada and began to build a home here. I was flying back home to England once a year, each year passing missing out on big life moments and milestones - becoming an auntie from overseas, friends getting married and having babies, loved ones passing on. Maybe it was the year of 2020, or maybe it was always going to catch up with me at some point, but my inner voice started to get louder as the years went on. I didn’t want to spend the next decade missing out on more of the big (and small) moments in England, but Canada had become a second home and I desperately wanted to find a way to balance both.
Creating FARRIER is about pursuing a deliberate dream to design a life that prioritizes family and nurtures my authentic creativity. It is a dream come true to both spend time in my first home in England, and live in my new home in Canada. Each sourcing trip to England spans about three months - not only three months of daily art and travel, but three months of cozy Sunday roast dinners with the family and my nieces, three months of remembering the grey skies and rainy days in England and how “at home” they make me feel, and three months of teaching my partner about where I’m from and who I am. Oh, and a lot (A LOT) of cups of tea.
As a small business, we are filled with the utmost gratitude that we can live out this dream and new life chapter. As C.S. Lewis so eloquently put, “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream”. Thank you for supporting our little dream.