Designed in New Zealand 🇳🇿
Rounded tips instead of spikes, a canopy that stays tight in a southerly, and a maker who will repair it rather than replace it. We keep a small range at Yarntons - every colour and size we have is on this page.
Rounded tips · 360° spinning canopy · Designed in New Zealand · Repaired, not replaced · Free NZ shipping over $150 ·
Pick a colour · live stock
Blunt Metro Umbrella
Tap a colour and the photo changes. What you see here is what is on the shelf today, across both stores and online.
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Limited edition · Metro size · $149
A limited-edition Metro carrying work by the tā moko artist Graham Tipene. The design is inspired by kawakawa pounamu and celebrates te reo Māori — it is the most striking umbrella we have ever stocked, and we have only a handful.
Open width is the number that matters. Closed length is what decides whether it fits in the bag.
Just landed · The Neo
The Neo folds down more than 30% smaller than the Metro — properly the size you can pop in a purse or keep in the car door. Same rounded tips, same tensioned canopy, same repair promise. In Midnight Navy, with more colours arriving.
A note from the shop
It was a wet Monday morning in Birkenhead. Walking down Hinemoa Street for a coffee I passed at least six umbrellas coming the other way, and every one of them was a Blunt.
Blunt was designed by Greig Brebner, a New Zealand engineer who went to London on his OE in 1999. He is 1.9 metres tall, which on a rainy London footpath puts your eyes at exactly the height of everyone else's umbrella spikes. He decided he could do better, and it took him about ten years of prototypes - wind tunnels, and the windier hills of Auckland, before the first Blunts went on sale in 2009.
The rounded tips give the umbrella its name. Each one opens like a miniature umbrella at the edge of the canopy and pulls the fabric tight all the way round, which is where ordinary umbrellas fail first. And they are designed to be repaired: if something breaks, Blunt will fix it rather than send you a new one.
From a shopkeeper's point of view that is slightly awkward. Once you have one, you don't need another for a very long time. We have decided we can live with that.
Luke
Yarntons, Birkenhead & Devonport
Live stock across Birkenhead, Devonport and online. Free NZ shipping over $150; Afterpay and Zip at checkout.
