Curious Red is dedicated to crafting high-quality timeless products designed to delight, be impressively functional, and last for years (and, hence, reduce waste).

And, there's no better testament to these values than our flagship product: Maku. The All-day, everywhere sandals. Built over 7 years & 37 iterations in the real world, they are designed for life!

Maku sandals were first launched to the world in a Kickstarter campaign that doubled it's goal in 8 hours, and pre-sold ~1300 Makus.

Behind the scenes, we are a small team of three—Will, Hanane, & David—working to design, manufacture, and deliver unique and norm-changing products to the world.

In 2009, frustrated by the options available to me (Will), I handmade myself a pair of sandals to run in. I ended up wearing them more than all my other shoes. People would regularly come up to me on the streets asking me where I got them from. That's when I knew we were onto something.

5 years and 37 trials later, we finally had it right. So right, in fact, that as soon as we had sold 50 pairs, a hundred more lined up. With each pair taking us 4 hours to make by hand, we had to find a better way to do this... That’s when Hanane, David, and I decided to team up and give these sandals a real shot. And so, Maku was born and we launched on Kickstarter!

– Will Choukeir