The story of Compartes, with Compartés as its accented editorial styling, begins with a 1950 chocolate legacy and moves through Jonathan Grahm's contemporary renewal. A small team of chocolatiers and artists handcrafts the collections in Los Angeles, California, treating chocolate as a meeting point for flavor, design, fashion, style, and art.
A Brentwood home was the setting for the earliest European-style confections described in the Compartes history. Mr. and Mrs. Compartes established the business in 1950; the Grahm family acquired it in a later period; and Jonathan Grahm began making chocolate there at 15 years old.
Los Angeles work now proceeds daily in small batches, with no conveyor belts, chocolate waterfalls, or high-tech machinery. That approach leaves room for continual experimentation and for well-known flavors to be translated through contemporary combinations and design.
The gifting side of Compartes is built for personalization: custom logos, tailored branding, and designed chocolate for events or gifts. Its familiar exchange between chocolate, art, fashion, and visual style becomes a flexible brief rather than a fixed format.
Presentation is treated as part of what makes the gift memorable.
Ingredients may come from many parts of the world, with local purchasing prioritized when possible. California orchard nuts, Farmers Market berries, and citrus illustrate the nearby side of that sourcing approach.
Freshness and flavor guide what enters Compartes' handcrafted confections, truffles, and bars.
Within Compartes, vegan chocolate is made from dark chocolate and high-quality ingredients. Nostalgic and classic ideas are redirected through modern pairings, and the final expression joins flavor to art, fashion, style, and design.
