Portier
Koen Oosterbroek
Recognition
2025 Psychedelics Design Winner
Best in Class Products & Services
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Spotlighting tangible products and services, from mass-market to niche offerings, both online and offline. This category considers the entire user experience from start to finish. Products are eg mushroom gummies that are not psychedelic whatsoever but have future visions.
Credits
Title: Portier
Company: Portier
Entrant: Koen Oosterbroek
Design Team: Koen Oosterbroek, Sebastian Wieczoreck
Description
The Portalbox for DMT is made of the highest quality rosewood, and features a highly accurate scale, optional vaporiser and necessary add-ons for DMT and Changa, jars, vials, and a guidebook that includes visionary art from famous collaborating artists such as Luis Tamani (co-written with psychedelic researchers). The journal has integrations sections and lessons to let the journey leave a lasting impact.The box include hidden sections, dynamic compartments for storing plant medicine, and nods to psychedelic civilisations of the past such as the ancient Egyptians (wood-cut pyramids). Everything in the box is optimised for the end-user to have the best experience possible. The end product counters the stereotypical styles of a paraphernalia by standing as a timeless legacy item that can be proudly displayed. Our community is strong, and our reviews have only consisted of 5-stars, which you can see by googling ‘Portier Trustpilot. Since the inception, all our boxes have been upgraded to the best quality sustainable wood without comprimising on quality - to leave ancient forests completely alone.
The success of the Portalbox led to the Ceremony Box, a psychedelic mushroom tea kit, complete with the perfect tea infuser, ceramic handmade cups, a marble altar for consciously setting your intention before the journey, and flexible storage units.
About Portier
Portier was founded during COVID in Amsterdam by two best friends who had worked in the fields of creative design and psychedelics (harm reduction and psychedelic research) for over a decade. Frustrated with the stigmatization around psychedelics and lack of resources for optimal home-use practices, they combined their expertises to create psychedelic storage cases that people could cherish and even pass down to children. They believed that psychonauts deserved high-quality beautiful products, alike a Japanese tea ceremony kit (but for plant medicine), inspiring others to witness that reverence psychedelics deserve, while optimising use.
To inform their vision, the founders crowdsourced input and feedback from Internet groups and forums, collecting over 4,000 followers who gave input in designing the boxes as a truly inclusive project for the psychedelic community. Founders Koen & Sebastian attended scientific conferences to discuss their ideas with experts like Paul Stamets and Rick Doblin. Additionally, they started podcasts in which they interviewed dozens of people such as Rick Strassman (author of DMT The Spirit Molecule), Larry Norris (Decriminalize Nature) and Ronan Levy (Field Trip Health) for tips on how to design the best physical tributes to psychedelics in the form tf these cases. They flew to Guatemala to discuss the idea with elderly mushroom medicine women, and discussed the idea with shaman of several tribes who us ayahuasca for generations.
