The walnut comes from a single estate near Aberfeldy. The trees are felled in winter, when the sap is down, and air-dried for two summers in an open-sided barn. By the time the boards reach the workshop in Perthshire they've lost a third of their weight in water and gained the close, even grain that takes a hand-applied oil finish without lifting.
Our bedside chests are turned from this stock — single-board tops, dovetailed carcasses, brass pulls cast to a pattern we drew on the back of an envelope in 2022. They are, deliberately, not perfect. A tight knot in the grain is left where it falls. The colour shifts a quarter-shade between drawer and frame.
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.
The wool throws are loomed by a family who have been weaving Hebridean tweed since the 1960s. The yarn is undyed — the colour is the colour of the sheep. We chose a 2/2 twill in 130 × 180cm because it's the size that works on a double bed and across the back of a reading chair without crumpling.
Glasgow.
Brass is spun in a workshop the size of a single garage. Each lampshade is pressed against a wooden form, trimmed, hand-polished, and lacquered in a single afternoon. We can make about forty a week.
The whole bedroom collection is in stock now. Slight variation is part of it.