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Made for somewhere

Twelve pieces across three rooms. Each section below carries the measurements that actually decide a layout — clearance, seat height, how far a chair sits from a table — because those settle a room long before a finish does.

Seating, low tables, storage and the things thrown over them

The living room

The room people get wrong most often, and almost always in the same direction: the sofa is too big and everything else is too far from it. A three-seater against a wall with a chair marooned opposite is a waiting room. The Ardley is 218cm and it wants a chair at about 45 degrees to it, roughly a metre away — close enough that two people can put a cup down on the same table without standing up.

Height is the second thing. The Talla sits at 34cm and the Ardley seat at 43cm, which is the gap that lets you reach a glass without leaning. Anything taller than the seat turns a coffee table into a desk, and anything much lower stops being usable from the sofa at all. If you are choosing between the travertine and a timber top, the deciding question is light: unfilled stone eats it, oak throws it back.

Start with the sofa, then place the chair before the table.

Pieces
5
From
145 EUR
Lead time
9–9 weeks on the made-to-order pieces

Tables, chairs, the sideboard and the light above it

The dining room

Six people need 60cm of table edge each and 90cm of floor behind every chair to get out without asking. The Sunde is 220 x 95cm, which seats eight comfortably and ten at the point where elbows become a shared problem. Those two numbers — edge per person, clearance behind — decide the room far more than the table does.

Mixing chairs is not a compromise, it is the usual answer: the Ostley in ash is lighter to move and better to sit on for an hour, the Marlow in velvet is better to sit on for three. Six of one and two of the other at the ends is the arrangement we sell most, and it costs less than eight of the upholstered chair. Hang the Halo at 75cm above the top — high enough to see across, low enough that the light lands on the table rather than on everyone.

Start with the clearance behind the chairs, not the length of the table.

Pieces
5
From
245 EUR
Lead time
All from stock

The two things that actually get touched every day

The bedroom

We make very little for this room on purpose. A bed is a mattress problem before it is a furniture one, and we would rather sell you a lamp we have got right than a frame we have not. What is here is what gets handled daily: a table lamp small enough to leave room for a book, and cushion covers that come off and go in the machine at 30 degrees.

The Wren is 38cm tall with the shade, which puts the bulb below eye level when you are sitting up — the single measurement that decides whether a bedside lamp is restful or an interrogation. Washed linen creases permanently and is meant to. It has the lowest rub count in the range, which is fine on a bed and the reason we will not offer it as a main cover on the three-seater.

Start with the lamp height, measured from the top of the mattress.

Pieces
2
From
95 EUR
Lead time
All from stock
Everything

A room is decided by clearance and seat height. The finish is the last thing to worry about.

Before you order anything

Four things we say on the phone every week. All of them are free, and between them they account for most of the returns that never happened.

Measure the route before the room
The number that decides everything is the narrowest point between the street and where the piece is going — usually a turn on a stair, not a doorway. The diagonal of a piece’s width and depth is what has to pass. Send it to us and we will tell you honestly, including when the answer is no.
Put the big thing in first, on paper
Tape the footprint on the floor and live with it for two days. It is free, it takes ten minutes, and it has stopped more returns than any photograph we have ever taken.
Order swatches for the pairings, not the pieces
Walnut against bouclé at four in the afternoon in your own hallway is the only test that settles it. Swatches are free, there is no limit, and nobody follows up.
Buy the room over two years, not two weeks
Everything here is made in the same workshop from the same nine materials, so a chair bought next winter will still sit correctly beside a table bought this one. Lead times are the argument for ordering the slow pieces first.
  • 12Pieces in the catalogue
  • 3Rooms they are made for
  • 9Materials across all of them
  • 0Veneer anywhere in the range

Planning a whole room

Send us the room, not the wish list

A rough plan with the window and the door on it gets a more useful answer than a list of product names. We will say what is missing and what is one piece too many.

Swatches for the pairings

Timber against cloth, in your own light. Free, no limit, posted the same week, and nobody follows up to ask whether you have decided.

Order the slow pieces first

Made-to-order runs eight to nine weeks and stock ships in days. Getting that order right is how a room arrives together rather than in three instalments.

One delivery, one crew

Pieces bought weeks apart can be held and delivered together, into the room, with the packaging taken away. Ask Rikke rather than paying twice.

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