Maine · New Hampshire · Vermont

A building products supply house run by an architect.

Lighting, tile, flooring, furniture, fabric, wallcovering and architectural hardware — including lines sold to the trade only, that never reach a retail shelf. We buy at distribution and sell with one markup instead of three.

Send us what you need See what we supply

Rasa, Bangor — a finished interior supplied by Robin Hood Supply

Pablo Designs, LightArt, PaintedPaper, Astek, California Paper, Mirroflex, Woodywalls, Armstrong, Tarkett, West Elm and Tablebase Depot — all supplied through Robin Hood Supply.

Breadth

Six categories and several hundred lines, from a single point of contact.

Access

Trade-only brands you cannot order on your own, at distribution pricing.

Judgment

Twenty-five years of watching these products hold up or fail in finished buildings.

What we supply

Six categories, named lines, one conversation. Most projects need several of these, and most buyers end up chasing them separately.

Tile & Stone

Porcelain, ceramic, natural stone, glass, cement, terrazzo, zellige and handmade.

Tilebar · Nemo Tile

Furniture

Hospitality and commercial seating built to order, plus exterior furniture rated for real weather.

Kellex · Sandler · Harbour Outdoor

Fabric & Wallcovering

The full Kravet family — upholstery, drapery, wallcovering, trim, carpet and furniture.

Kravet · Lee Jofa · Brunschwig & Fils · GP & J Baker · Donghia

Lighting

Decorative, architectural, site, controls and emergency, across our Northern New England territory.

Artemide · Roll & Hill · Sonneman · Hudson Valley · Troy

Flooring

Commercial resilient, carpet tile, luxury vinyl, rubber, linoleum, base and trim.

Tarkett

Architectural Hardware

Sand-cast solid bronze, made to order. Not plated — the patina develops rather than wears off.

Rocky Mountain Hardware

Relationships with the manufacturers

For some of these lines Robin Hood Supply is the dealer or distributor outright. For the rest, the relationship is with the distributor who handles the line — built over twenty-five years of specifying these products, installing them, and dealing with what happened afterward.

That is the difference between a company that stocks a line and a company that can get the factory on the phone and ask whether a finish is going to hold up where you are putting it.

A sample of what those relationships reach, across all six categories. The full list runs to several hundred.

KravetArtemideRocky Mountain HardwareTarkettTilebarHarbour Outdoor Lee JofaRoll & HillNemo TileKellexBrunschwig & FilsSonneman GP & J BakerHudson ValleySandlerDonghiaTroy LightingHammerton

Why the price is different

Most of what gets specified on a serious project is sold to the trade. A homeowner cannot call Kravet. An architect specifying Rocky Mountain Hardware goes through a showroom that sets its own margin on top.

Every layer between the factory and the job site adds cost. Most of them add nothing else.

We buy at distribution and sell with one markup instead of three. Same product, same factory, fewer hands.

Why this company exists

A project gets designed, everyone agrees it is right, and then pricing comes back and the specification starts coming apart.

The fixture is three times the budget. The tile has an eighteen-week lead time and the opening is in twelve. The hardware gets substituted for something that looks close in a photograph and feels wrong in the hand.

Nobody is acting in bad faith. But the finished building is worse than the one that was designed, and the difference is not design talent or client budget. It is the supply chain between the factory and the job site.

Read the whole story →

Send us what you're after

A specification, a cut sheet, a catalogue number, a photograph of something you saw and liked, or just a room and a budget. We come back with the line, the price and the lead time.

If what you picked is the wrong product for the application, we'll say that too.

(207) 808-1040