PEOPLE: Reuben

Reuben is very good at making things.  He whipped this bench out one day between breakfast and lunch. Then he came back the next day and made a coffee cart (soon to be serving coffee in hoxton). He even made the wheels.  At the moment he is working on a series of lights that are pretty much the coolest shit ever. Oh and he has made a wall mounted shelving unit. All from pallets.  More pics to come....

MADE: Susannah's twin set

We met Susannah one Sunday evening on Exmouth Market and she instantly got our concept. She fell in love with the ICI pink version of the pallet bench and stool and was intent on having a set commissioned for the interior of her apartment. Susannah was one of the first people to openly embrace (read: pay upfront) for our Clerkenwell Design Week furniture and gave us the encouragement to develop the concept further.  

MADE: Morito Bench

Morito is a resturant on Exmouth Market. It is next door to Moro, they share a kitchen. Even when I lived in Australia I had heard about Moro. My beautiful girlfriend's parents had the cookbook. And although i shouldnt say this, their cooking is partly responsible for my early commitment to the relationship.  To have our furniture in a place like Morito is the most amazing things ever. Thanks for the support (and the beautiful girlfriend). 

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Alessandro Mistrulli

I met Alessandro out front of the Exmouth Market shop one morning. I think he may have been lost and i didnt really understand what he was saying but we met up a few weeks later and he presented some of the most amazing work. He's work aligns perfective with what we are doing. Everything is handmade. He prints everything himself. amazing, See more of his work at http://fucktotumlab.tumblr.com/.

MADE: Coffee Tables

Following on from the Exmouth Market Pallet Project we have progressed the design to make coffee tables. Here are two examples. (Thanks Dan and Rob for letting us show your new tables..!!)

NEW SHOP : 151 Hoxton Street

We now have a new workshop at 151 Hoxton Street. N1 6PJ. We are using the shop to design and build all the furniture. Its great to be in this part of London.  Our aim is to use materials that already exist, are considered waste and are proximate to the location where our furniture is made. So we are looking forward to working with the people of Hoxton to minamise waste and have a positive impact on the (pretty amazing) community.

 (some of the local lads fighting for our new designs)

MADE: CDW range

For Clerkenwell Design Week we ran the pallet project which was a ten day experiment to see what we could create from materials found in the streets surrounding a pop-up workshop on Exmouth Market. Throughout the ten days we collected and documented over 50 pallets and made 21 pieces of furniture. Our aim was to make as many pieces as possible so we designed a form of construction which could be adapted to a chair, a stool, a bench and then a small table. Each piece of furniture was given an individual number through which you can trace the origins of the materials right back to a picture of the pallet and the location it was found.