The Legacy Continues
Masonre builds on decades of creative work under the Robert Mason name.
Shaped through physical spaces, leadership, loss, and rebuilding with intention. And a young boy's dream.
The Robert Mason Legacy
Masonre is the continuation of nearly thirty years of work, shaped by lived experience, physical spaces, and return.
The Beginning
Robert Mason Co. began with a twelve-year-old's fascination with products, design, and how environments feel. Small experiments became something more. A belief that spaces could shape how people experienced the world around them.
That instinct grew into award-winning stores and studios in West Virginia and Columbus that blended retail, editorial, and community into something that didn't have a category yet.
Returning to the Work
After nearly a decade leading creative teams, Robert returned to the brand in 2012 to continue the original vision.
In 2013, an award-winning pop-up store opened in Columbus, reimagining Robert Mason as a fashion-forward lifestyle brand. It combined categories that had never been curated together: work gear, creative tools, fashion accessories, grooming, home goods, and fragrance. A proof of concept for what the brand could become.
The Fire
On April 15, 2014, a fire destroyed the Columbus store.
Everything that had been built, the vision, the momentum, the proof that the concept worked, disappeared overnight. That moment became the origin of RE. Not as a concept, but as a lived practice.
Return. Rebuild. Reinspire.
National Reach
Robert Mason products were carried by Express, placing the brand into a national retail context. It demonstrated that the vision resonated at scale without being diluted. Taste, intention, and clarity translated far beyond a single storefront.
Reopening and Return
In 2015, the brand returned to the Short North with a new physical location. Not an erasure of what had been lost, but a commitment to carry the vision forward.
The new space expanded the brand's reach. Robert Mason was featured in publications internationally, shipped globally, and continued to prove that a point of view rooted in craft and care could connect far beyond its own walls.
The name itself tells the story. Mason, a middle name and a legacy. RE, the practice of returning, rebuilding, and choosing again. Together they become Masonre, which sounds like masonry, the oldest and strongest form of building. Built to endure.
The domain, specifically procured from Reunion, France, completed the architecture: mason.re. RE is not decoration. It is foundation.
What began as one person's rebuild has become a house for anyone who has had to start again and refused to come back smaller.
The legacy continues.
