Unique designs,
hand made to complete your home
Pendants
A touch of uniqueness
Lamps
Shadow
lamps
Downlight Bezels
Turning the functional into decoration.
Tables
Bespoke designer tables
Courses
Learn DIY and carpentry
with Matt
Coming soon
New products
The Intent
To produce original, stimulating designs that sit comfortably in your home or workplace either as a new element for an existing space or as a focal point for a completely new decor.
My Products
Striking steam bent sculptural lamps, elegant bespoke designer tables, small batch pendant lighting and easily installed faceplates that help plain recessed ceiling lights co-ordinate more sympathetically with your decor. All are original designs made by me and are available only from my workshop.
Till Now
Since school my life has been split between the practical and the creative. I started off painting boats and doing property maintenance, earning money to help pay for my time spent studying Graphic design and photography at the West Sussex College of Design. The 15 years after college were spent mostly as a general builder, and occasionally as a photographer, to pay for my passion for travel.
In 2002 I helped make a yurt for a local wildlife preserve and by 2008 all my income came from making, renting and teaching people to make these wonderfully versatile, striking looking structures.
My yurts were all made from sustainably sourced ash saplings that I felled myself and worked with hand tools under canvas, without power in a defunct tree nursery near Brighton. Using naturally grown, misshapen timber rather than milled uniform boards sparked my obsession for wood as a making material and taught me the benefits of adapting how I worked to the materials rather than the other way around, a philosophy that now substantially affects all of my pieces.
In 2019 I put yurt making aside and committed instead to producing much more design led and finely finished pieces of furniture and lighting that reflect and satisfy my individual creative language.
Also my new workshop has a solid roof, and walls, and power, and water, and even heating in places, bliss.
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Positive Work Practice
Repurposing wood, particularly historically notable pieces, both helps reduce my environmental impact and introduces interesting provenances and cultural significance to my work.
Sourcing freshly milled wood from local mills supports small businesses like my own, keeps my carbon footprint low and through the face to face relationships it engenders gives me first access to beautifully figured or rare indigenous timber.