One name. Two lines.

Chaston & Co began the way most good workshops do — with one bench, one last, and a stubborn opinion about glue.

The house sits in Naxal, in old Kathmandu, where tailors and goldsmiths have kept their doors open for generations. We make shoes the way those houses make suits and rings: by hand, to measure, in small numbers, for people we expect to see again.

The “& Co” is not decoration. It is the cutters, closers, lasters, and finishers whose hands are in every pair — and the customers who bring their shoes back year after year to be resoled rather than replaced. A house is its company.

Why two lines

We make two lines under one roof, the way the great watch houses keep a grand line and a daily line. The Premium Line is the formal tradition — welted oxfords, derbies, loafers, and monks, built for decades of wear. The Casual Line takes the same hides and the same hands to sneakers and easy shoes.

Different postures, one standard. If a hide is not good enough for an oxford, it is not good enough for a sneaker either.