Measure Twice, Cut Once. Very Good & Proper is collaboration between the design duo Klauser & Carpenter and Canteen co-founder Patrick Clayton-Malone. The company was founded in 2008, under the pretense of making products for London’s ‘Great British food’ restaurant, Canteen. MISSION. To create practical, beautiful and reasonably priced products that last a long time. A simple mission, then, but an important one as well.