Frames & joinery
Hattie Marlow
Trained in chair-making at Rycotewood. Fifteen years with ash.
— Our story
A house built on restraint.
— Beginnings
One barn.
Ten boards of ash.
We started in 2024 in a stone barn outside Stow-on-the-Wold, with ten boards of ash that had been drying since 2010 and one idea: to make furniture the way it used to be made, by people who would still be alive to fix it in forty years.
We finished our first sofa in February 2025. We delivered it ourselves. The owner has written to us once a season since.
“Most furniture is built
to be replaced.
We build ours to be inherited.”
— The makers
Three pairs of hands.
Finishing & oil
Tomas Reijer
From Bruges. Will not be hurried, and does not hurry the wood.
Upholstery & linen
Mara Sopwith
Hand-stitches every seam. Has not used a staple in seven years.