Our story
Dawn Valley Mercantile was founded by Iris Calderon in 2024, working out of a small studio in Sonoma, California. We started because we couldn’t find what we were looking for: home goods + body-care retailer — candles, ceramics, linens, bar soap, body oils, throws, tabletop., made carefully, in small batches, by people who knew what they were doing.
Today the studio is still small — six people, two part-time. Every piece is checked by hand before it goes in a box. We don’t run sales, we don’t drop shop, we don’t have an app. We make things as well as we can and ship them when they’re ready.