Craftmachineship

We use modern machines along with hand tools to make traditional joints.

Because we select the timber for each item individually we can highlight the most interesting characteristics of every board. Ensuring harmony in colour and grain. Incorporating natural features that would be discarded in mass produced furniture,.

Age Dis/gracefully

Soild wood and natural finishes are primed for graceful aging. Although they'll put up with neglect and hard wear too.

We hope with a little care our products will be time worn antiques one day. But we'd be equally happy for them to be flea market finds a hundred years down the line.

Either way they'll last because in home maintenance is rewarding and enjoyable without toxic substances. Repair if needed is possible and practicable.

Future Soil

We believe in a local future. And so we only use British grown timber from thoughtfully managed woodlands.

Our furniture is free from plastics or petrochemicals. Protein glues, vegetable oils, soaps, and beeswax take their place.

At the end of its useful life our furniture, and the waste we generate making it, can return to the earth in its entirety without further processing.

I design furniture I'd like to live with. Strong shapes, understandable construction and with minimal, natural finishes. For me this combination best captures the beauty and honesty of the raw material.

So much wooden furniture made today has no spirit. Often of industrial scale processes demand homogenised panels made up of thin strips of wood. Sometimes the solution is thin veneer on manufactured materials such as MDF or plywood. Where something can be made with cheaper materials it often is.

This is not our approach. 

We prefer the integrity of full width boards of solid wood, where the true nature of the material can be seen and the grain can be read. By choosing the timber for each piece individually, we can create a sense of continuity and generousness missing from mass produced furniture. 

By cutting most of our joints with digitally controlled machinery we can efficiently make in small batches. Keeping the quality high and our prices reasonably accessible.

Above all I hope our furniture brings you a little joy every time you use it.

Stu