About Tetra

Originally founded in 2015 and relaunched in 2024, Tetra is a retail shop offering all of the most beautifully designed contemporary lighters on the internet — both flame and USB — plus accessories like lighter holders.

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A blue and orange rectangular box with a metal lid, containing an open lighter positioned inside.

Tetra Tutorial: How to Maintain Your Tsubota Pearl Lighter

If your Tsubota Pearl lighter stops working, the most important thing to remember is that these lighters are small but precisely engineered machines — and they're usually very easy to fix, if you k...

Nov 12, 2021
A red and yellow LEGO lighter with a black wheel and metal components, resembling a miniature vehicle.

Meet the Maker: Tsubota Pearl Lighters

When Tetra launched in 2015, one of the first brands we knew we had to have in our stable was the family-owned Japanese lighter company Tsubota Pearl, whose unconventional designs and commitment to...

Nov 9, 2020
A group of decorated lighters on a marble surface, including one with pink and blue glitter.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Arc Lighters

"Flameless lighter" may sound like a sci-fi invention, but arc lighters — such as the Tetra Ombre Arc Lighter — are very real, and very useful. Have you ever tried to light a rolled smoke on a wind...

Jul 28, 2020