The First Article is a partnership stemming from the professional relationships of creative minded individuals. Our diverse backgrounds include experiences with everything from woodworking and display design to procurement and marketing for the toy industry. Eventually our conversations lead toward the discovery of a common interest to develop a line of unique quality products of our own design. With many animated brain storming sessions and struggles to find the right product the Oak Wine Caddy became out first serious endeavor. A multitude of concepts and several rounds of prototype revisions brandished the first article of our stackable design, thus giving birth to the company name.