Furniture makers

Albert Eagleman Jeffrey

Albert 'Eagleman' Jeffrey - Furniture maker. Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters include: Gnomeman, Beaverman,...

Aldo Tura

Aldo Tura - Experimental furniture designer. Founded his furniture workshop in Lombardy, near Milan in 1939. His was a mix of art deco, art nouveau and modernism styles, he was committed to producing quality made furniture. In many instances one off...

Archie Shine

Archie Shine - British furniture maker in the 1950s and 60s. Archie Shine's style was elegant and simple with low, long lines in the Scandinavian and Danish style. His furniture was always well made using quality woods like Teak, Afromosia and...

Arthur Simpson

Arthur Simpson / A W Simpson - Furniture maker in the Arts And Crafts style. He established his famous handicrafts workshop in Kendal. His early work was in the neo gothic style, ecclesiastical in nature. His later work a more minimal style in...

Betjemann

Betjemann & Sons - George Betjemann and his two sons George William Betjemann and John Betjemann. Innovative cabinet and box makers that featured their own Betjemann patent mechanisms. The company was located in London and ran from the mid 19th...

Betty Joel

Betty Joel was a British furniture, textile and interior designer active in England from c.1921 to 1937. She began to design furniture and retailed it through her shop in Sloane street London eventually moving to larger premises in Knightsbridge,...

Bevan & Funnell

Bevan and Funnell (Established 1945)- Furnituremakers - Reprodux. Bevan Funnell are 20th century traditional English furniture manufacturers. Since the middle of the 20th Century Bevan Funnell have made quality reproduction furniture of the 18th and...

Bramin of Denmark

Danish furniture designer and manufacturer in Bramming Denmark. Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s they produced a wide range of furniture representative of the Danish mid century era for the home and office. Bramin worked with many respected...

Colin Beaverman Almack

Colin Beaverman Almack. (Beaver Furniture) Colin Almack known as Beaverman. Maker of bespoke furniture predominantly in oak with his trade mark 'the beaver' carved on all his pieces. He established his workshop in Thirsk, North Yorkshire in 1960....

Derek Fishman Slater

Derek Fishman Slater - Furniture maker. Pieces had a carved fish. Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters include:...

Edwards and Roberts | Furniture maker

Edwards and Roberts, London makers and restorers. Founded in 1845. They became one of the leading London cabinet makers and retailers, producing high quality furniture and reproduced copies of earlier periods. They were known for restoring and...

Epstein

Cabinet Makers: H.& L. Epstein, London. Harry and Lou Epstein. The Epstein Company was founded in London in the 1890s by Morris Epstein. He and two of his sons, the 'Epstein brothers' (Harry and Lou), were designers and producers of Art Deco...

Ercol Furniture

Ercol was founded in 1920 by Lucian Ercolani in Higher Wycombe, Buckinghamshire as Furniture Industries. In the 1940s Ercol perfected the steam bending of wood in large quantities, enabling them to mass produce chairs. With this method they were...

Esavian

Esavian - ESA - The brand name for the Education Supply Association Ltd. Post War furniture. Manufacturers of school and industrial midcentury low cost furniture. Most people know the furniture from school as a lot of it was produced in the 50s,...

G Plan Furniture

G-Plan was a pioneering range of furniture in the United Kingdom, produced by E Gomme Ltd of High Wycombe. A designer of their Danish range included Ib Kofod-Larsen.

Gillows

Gillows furniture. Lancashire England. Founder Robert Gillow (1704-1772). Robert Gillow began making furniture in around 1730. He developed first a national and then an international reputation as a supplier of quality furniture to the upper middle...

Globe Wernicke

Globe Wernicke - Furniture maker founded in 1893. The Globe-Wernicke company was an American furniture company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The company is best known for office furniture in particular their bookcases. They patented the ...

Gordon Russell

Gordon Russell Furniture designer and maker. Gordon Russell was an English designer, craftsman and educationist. Following service in WW1 he became a furniture maker and designer,initially inspired by the Cotswold School, and went on to have a...

Hans Wegner

Hans Wegner - Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner (1914-2007) renowned Danish furniture designer. Contributed greatly to the popularity of mid century design. His style is often described as Organic Functionality. In his time he designed over 500...

Hille

Hille furniture company, London furniture maker. Founded by Salamon Hille in east London in 1906 to renovate and reproduce 18th century furniture. They employed skilled craftsmen and the emphasis was given to quality rather than volume. The company...

Howard and Sons

Howard and Sons of London - Parquet flooring and furniture manufacturers. John Howard began trading in 1820 as a cabinet maker and in 1848 became John Howard and sons. The company became well-known for quality and craftsmanship. They established...

James Shoolbred

James Shoolbred or Jas. Shoolbred & Co. In the 1820s James Shoolbred and co (Jas Shoolbred) was originally a drapers in London selling textiles to the furniture trade. It expanded to designing, manufacturing and selling furniture by the 1880s. It...

John Taylor of Edinburgh

John Taylor of Edinburgh - Furnituremaker John Taylor & Sons

Knoll

Knoll was founded in New York City in 1938 by Hans Knoll. Manufacturer of designer furniture. In 1948 their designer Eero Saarinen designed the womb chair and in 1956 the Tulip chair. In 1953 the company was accorded exclusive manufacturing and...

Lamb of Manchester

Cabinet maker: Lamb of Manchester Antique Furniture. Founded by James Lamb 1816-1903. A well respected cabinet maker in Manchester and a important name in the Aesthetic movement. Having a showroom and workshops in Manchester, they produced high...

Lizardman

Lizardman - Martin Lizardman Dutton and Derek Lizardman Slater. Furnituremakers. Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters...

Lloyd Loom

Lloyd Loom - Furniture maker. Lloyd Loom was invented by an American - Marshall B Lloyd in 1917. It was a process were craft paper is twisted around a metal wire and woven into Lloyd Loom fabric. It had all the benefits of wicker and rattan without...

Maple and Co

Maple and Co Antique Furniture. Maple & Co 1870-1950. Founded by John Maple, Tottenham Court Road London. With the help of his son, John, Maple and Co became the largest furniture store in the world. They were well known for quality and...

Merrow Associates

Merrow Associates - Richard Young (1960s-1970s). It is believed that Merrow Associates was set up by British designer Richard Young. He was the principal designer and had studied at the Royal Academy. The furniture is characterized with it's use of...

Miles & Edwards

Henry Miles and John Edwards. The firm of Miles & Edwards were quality furniture makers and upholsterers. They began operation in 1822 at 134 Oxford Street, Westminster, London. Their clients included the British ambassador to Paris and the Empress...

Minty

Furniture Maker: Minty, Oxford, England. Also Minty Ltd.

Morris of Glasgow

Morris of Glasgow - Furnituremaker Founder Harris morris 1884. Manufacturer and supplier of furniture for ocean liners, cinemas, office and domestic furniture. The company became innovators in wood technology and design especially in pioneering...

Parker Knoll

Parker Knoll is a British furniture manufacturing company. Founded by Frederick Parker, a British furniture manufacturer, and William Knoll, a German inventor of a new form of sprung furniture. The two businesses quickly formed a new company...

Remploy

Reynolds of Ludlow

Reynolds of Ludlow founded by Arthur Basil Reynolds in Ludlow in 1946. The original company name being Reynolds Woodware Limited. Arthur Reynolds was taught his cabinet making skills in an environment influenced by the Arts and Crafts principles,...

Robert Mouseman Thompson

Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson (1876-1955) English craftsman and furnituremaker. His furniture is handmade in oak by craftsmen and are characterised by a trademark mouse carved on every piece. The mouse is thought to have first appeared around 1919 and...

Simpoles of Manchester

Cabinet makers - Simpoles of Manchester

Thomas Gnomeman Whittaker

Thomas Gnomeman Whittaker - Furnituremaker Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters include: Gnomeman, Beaverman,...

Thonet

Thonet Chairs (bentwood chairs). Michael Thonet perfected a process of making furniture out of a combination of bent and glued wooden slats using steam, setting the tone for bentwood chairs of the future. Thonet's most popular chair being the...

Titchmarsh and Goodwin

Titchmarsh and Goodwin cabinet makers. Traditional furniture manufacturers, bespoke wooden furniture. For over 90 years Titchmarsh and Goodwin have been handcrafting quality wooden furniture in the traditional way from their workshops in Suffolk...

Token works

Token Works - Hand Made Furniture. H. Green at Token works.

Waring and Gillow

Waring and Gillow - Furnituremakers founded in 1903. The joining of Warings of Liverpool and Gillows of Lancaster. Gillows was founded by Robert Gillow in around 1730 and, along with his two sons, quickly got recognised to be one the best cabinet...

Whytock and Reid | Furnituremaker

Whytock and Reid of Edinburgh | Furnituremakers Established in 1807 by Richard Whytock and John Reid in Edinburgh. They received their Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria. The business closed and went into liquidation in 2004.

Wilf Squirrelman Hutchinson

Wilf Squirrelman Hutchinson - Furnituremaker Robert Mouseman Thompson trained many local craftsmen, many of whom created their own similar trademarks - known collectively as the Yorkshire critters. These critters include: Gnomeman, Beaverman,...

William Birch

William Birch Of High Wycombe - Furniture maker. According to family tradition Birch began chairmaking in the 1840s. William Birch was a chair maker and Arts and Crafts furniture designer. He became a major supplier of furniture to Libertys and Co...

William Trotter of Edinburgh

William Trotter of Edinburgh - Cabinet maker William Trotter (1772-1833) established himself in 1805 in Princes Street Edinburgh. He became the most important, and successful Cabinet Maker in Scotland. His furniture is recognisable by its style and...

Wylie and Lochhead | Cabinetmaker

Wylie and Lochhead was established in 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland as cabinet makers and funeral directors. They were awarded a royal warrant in 1888 as cabinet makers and upholsterers.