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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Tetra Tutorial: How to Maintain Your Tsubota Pearl Lighter

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...

Meet the Maker: Tsubota Pearl Lighters

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...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Arc Lighters

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...