14 July 2012

Beautiful storage for your modern home

If you have a contemporary home you might be struggling to make your living spaces feel cosy and personal. A great solution is to complement your modern décor and furniture with one or two antique or restored pieces.

Quality pieces add character to contemporary interiors through their beauty, history and personality.

Old wood develops gorgeous textures, sensuous to touch.

Old lacquered pieces have a fantastic richness that you just can’t recreate. Even our painted pieces look very comfortable in contemporary spaces – and give you ‘art’ and ‘furniture’ in one package!

08 May 2012

Our Workshop

We partner with a workshop in China where a dedicated team of craftsmen and women take exquisite old furniture which has seen better days, and painstakingly bring it back to life. The highly skilled workers specialise in the different trades within furniture making and restoration, meaning we can also commission bespoke pieces for our customers. Read more here.


  

  

   

16 February 2012

Porcelain

Most of our porcelain items are museum copies of classic Chinese imperial court pieces - vases, jars, pots, large platters and large bowls.  Beautiful, functional, and (if you’re a goldfish) quite comfortable to live in!
Hou

19 January 2012

Unique coffee table with decorative panels

This very special coffee table was converted from an early 1800s carved bed from Ningxia. We stumbled across a rare (and small) stockpile of these old beds some time ago, and snapped them up to produce a very limited range of new designs. This coffee table is the last remaining piece.

All the handcarving is original, with a different design on each panel. The reverse side has the (original) handcarved frames, with new plain doors. Everything has been lovingly finished by our craftspeople, creating a stunning coffee table with a real story to tell. (And plenty of room to hide your own stories inside!)
Hou