The Chatsworth
A curved sofa in undyed bouclé.
£ 8,400
14–16 weeks
— A small house · made in the Cotswolds —
Six pieces of furniture. For now.
Three sofas to live in, and three chairs to sit beside them. Each made to order by three pairs of hands, over fourteen days, in a stone barn outside Stow-on-the-Wold. We will add a seventh piece when we have learned enough to deserve to.
§ I — Sofas
Three sofas, slowly built.
"Most furniture is built
to be replaced.
We build ours to be inherited."
— House motto
— The workshop
Fourteen days.
Three pairs of hands.
Every piece begins as boards of ash and oak that have been drying in our barn for at least eight years. Hattie shapes the frame; Tomas joins it with dowels and hide glue; Mara hand-stitches the upholstery. No piece leaves the workshop until all three sign the underside.
Inside the workshop →— Our covenant
Seven materials.
Nothing else.
We work in ash, oak, walnut, linen, wool, leather, and stone. We do not work in anything else — no plastic, no foam, no plated metal. If a piece cannot be made of these, we do not make the piece.
European Ash
14 yr air-dried
English Oak
kiln-dried
Walnut
hand-finished
Belgian Linen
Bruges loomed
British Wool
undyed
Saddle Leather
vegetable-tanned
Cotswold Stone
quarried local
Kapok Down
fair-trade
— As written about by
The World of Interiors
House & Garden
MONOCLE
Cabana
— The Journal
Slow notes.
WORKSHOP · XV · III · MMXXVI
On drying ash for fourteen years.
MATERIALS · IV · III · MMXXVI
A loom in Bruges, and the linen it gives us.
PEOPLE · XII · II · MMXXVI