We are a boutique travel agency creating travel moments that are deeply connected, honest, and life-changing. We work with families, companies, groups and individuals whose values match our own:
curiosity
quality over quantity
humility and gratitude
We host thoughtful travellers and groups at our Gatherings in dynamic places around the globe, and create bespoke itineraries through our Trip Design service.
Along the way we capture stories of curious and enchanting people all over the world.
Send us an email at martin@quartiercollective.com.
MATT, ROBY & MAXMIUS NUFFORT ABOARD THE MAILLOT JAUNE II It’s thirty chilly feet to the bottom at the end of F dock. The water is dark and thick, the muddy bottom littered with the drowned belongings of decades of sailors. Coffee cups, tackle, sunglasses, a tennis racket, plenty of… Read More
THE FAT HEN Behind the counter at The Fat Hen you find Linnea, pale and smiling, blonde. She is a daughter of Ballard, Nordic on both sides, and grew up in a house perched high above the neighborhood’s Golden Gardens beach. Her father built the first and most successful company… Read More
JOHN RICHARDS & BETHANY STORMER. FRANKIE & RUBY. Just a block from Seattle’s steadfastly charming Pike Place Market, John Richards stands behind the polished, cross-cut wooden desk of Jack Straw. With its whitewashed cement walls stretching to a bare ceiling and square, heavy wooden fixtures and paneling the clothing shop feels like a modernist… Read More
A custom Pendleton blanket is a great design choice, but it won’t help you sleep when you’re crammed four people to one bed. We travel with a Babybjorn travel crib for the Little Fella and folding cot for his sister, which she loves. But unless things go perfectly, sharing one… Read More
There’s no room on a sailboat for whining. If you’re going to whine you have to go sit by yourself on the poop deck. We’re not sailors so we don’t know whether it’s actually called the poop deck. But the name works too well to be concerned with the small… Read More
