Our Story
From London to Glasgow
I didn't start out wanting to make furniture. I started out selling it — buying pieces in London, moving them on, running it like any other trade. Then COVID hit, and that business didn't slow down, it stopped. No stock moving, no shop, no plan B built in.
So I built one. If I couldn't buy furniture anymore, I'd make it. The early pieces weren't good — they were curious, made on instinct more than skill, in whatever space and time I had. But something about the process stuck in a way the buying and selling never quite had.
The real shift came with the move to Glasgow. Something about the city — the materials that pass through it, the scaffold yards and salvage merchants, the pace of it — turned a lockdown experiment into an actual practice. I started sourcing locally, learning what the west of Scotland had lying around rather than shipping materials in from anywhere else, and building pieces around what I found rather than the other way round.
That's still how it works. Every lamp, every bench, every piece starts the same way — find the material first, then figure out what it wants to become.
Why reclaimed materials
Every piece we make starts with something that already had a life before it reached us — scaffold board that spent years on building sites across Scotland, cast iron fittings, salvaged timber. We're not interested in dressing up new materials to look old. If it's called vintage, it's genuinely reclaimed. If it's new hardware, we say so.
That choice isn't just aesthetic. Furniture built from reclaimed materials carries a fraction of the environmental footprint of new-manufactured equivalents — no fresh extraction, no long supply chain, just skilled work turning something already here into something built to last.
Handmade in Glasgow
Every piece is made by hand, sourced and built locally around Glasgow. Lamps, benches, wall hangers — each one starts with whatever material's been found or bought that week, rather than a fixed production line. We'd rather make things slowly and get them right than scale up and lose the part that makes each piece worth having: that it was actually made by someone, not stamped out on a line.
You'll find us in the shop online, and in person at Scottish Design Exchange on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
What we believe
Honesty in materials. No fake distressing, no "vintage-style" labels on brand-new stock. What we say a piece is made from is what it's actually made from.
Built to last, not to replace. A piece that lasts decades and gets repaired beats one that's replaced every few years — for your home and for the planet.
Design over competition. We're one small part of a wider Scottish maker community, not the only option. We'd rather celebrate good design wherever it's coming from than pretend we're the only ones doing it well.