Bespoke Furniture in Bristol

What bespoke means here

The word gets used loosely, so it is worth being plain about what we offer. It comes in two forms. A piece from our range, made to your requirements. Everything in our furniture collection is made to order, so sizes, timbers and finishes can be matched to the room it is going into. If you like a table but need it three hundred millimetres longer, in ash rather than oak, that is a normal request rather than a special one. We can produce 3D CAD renders so you can see the difference before anything is cut. An entirely original commission. This starts from whatever you have — an idea, a sketch, photographs of something you saw , or a full set of drawings from your architect. It might be a single piece, a fitted kitchen, an entire property's joinery package, or something else again. We have made public art and laboratory furniture as well as dining tables.

Our workshop in Bedminster

We are a small team of experienced designers and makers, working from a workshop at 66-77 Whitehouse Lane, Bristol BS3 4DN, a few minutes south of the city centre. Everything is made there using a combination of traditional hand tools, workshop machinery and specialist digital fabrication. The machinery gives us precision; the hand work gives the pieces their softened edges. The result is work that is crisp and precise, with gently softened details.

You’re welcome to visit. Most clients do at some point, usually to look at timber samples and see something in progress — it is far easier to choose a finish in person than from a photograph.

British timber, and what we combine it with

We champion British timber from our local sawmills. Using home-grown hardwood from sustainable, productive UK woodlands helps support a wood culture that benefits the environment, the people working in it and the economy. It also means we can usually tell you where a board came from.

The timbers we return to most often are English oak, British ash, walnut, elm and cherry . Alongside them we use a deliberately varied set of other materials to add texture and colour: Foresso, which is made from timber waste; Richlite; Durat; and patinated brass. Finishes are natural hard wax oils as standard, which protect the timber while leaving it looking and feeling like wood. Where a surface has to take harder use — a kitchen worktop, a commercial installation — we will specify something more durable and explain the trade-off .

How a commission works

Four stages: brief , design, making, delivery. It starts with a conversation about what you need and how the piece will be used. From there we develop a design and produce technical drawings and 3D renders, so you can see it before committing to it. Then we make it, and then we bring it to you. There is a fuller account on our process page

Lead times and cost

Freestanding pieces from our range are typically delivered ten to twelve weeks from order. Bespoke commissions and larger joinery projects are usually discussed several months ahead, because they involve a design and approvals phase before anything is made, and because installation generally has to fit a wider build programme. Bespoke commissions include a design fee equivalent to 10% of the project total. Payment is staged rather than taken up front, and we will give you a written schedule for each project.

We don't publish prices for commissioned work, because a dining table in ash and the same table in figured elm are not the same job. Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we will give you a straight answer about what it would cost.

Where we work

Most of our work is in Bristol and Bath. Recent projects include a Clifton regency home, a house in south Bristol, a kitchen in Bath, children's bedroom wardrobes in Larkhall, and a loft bed in Marshfield. We work further afield as well — a Wandsworth home among them.

We deliver all our large freestanding pieces ourselves and install all our own fitted work, wherever it is going. We would rather hand a piece over in person than hand it to a courier .

Commercial and architectural work

We work with architects, interior designers and contractors as well as private clients, from initial brief through to installation. Our commercial work includes the Glassfields building in Bristol. If you are specifying furniture or joinery for a project and need drawings, samples, or a sense of what is achievable in a given timber, get in touch early. It is much easier to design around what the material will actually do.

Talk to us about your project

Whether it is a single freestanding piece or an entire joinery package, we would like to hear about it.

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or email andy@kingandwebbon.com