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Artisans in Bespoke
Established 1983

St ANDREWS CHURCH HAM

Richard Woolf of McDaniel Woolf, Chartered Architects in Richmond, approached us with a proposal of various bespoke pieces to sit within St Andrews Church, Ham.

Having worked with Richard previously we knew his passion of purity and correctness in design and making, he requested the pieces be made traditional by a cabinetmaker, using hand tools and skills and not via a computer programmed CNC, which sadly seems to have overrode these sought after hand skills.

Written in the Churchwardens’ report on the fabric & furnishings of the St Andrews Church, Ham.

‘The last year has seen further progress of the West End development with the installation of furniture sympathetically designed by our outgoing chair of Building and Works, Richard Woolf, and beautifully built and fitted by John Beavan of Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. The sidespeoples’ mobile bookstands arrived in May 2016 and the fixed cupboards and noticeboards in January 2017. As well as being functional these items display the highest quality craftsmanship and complement not only the space in which they stand but are the equal of some of the best of the work produced for Saint Andrew’s over many decades.’
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By Nicki Beavan 07 Jun, 2022
We are a small team of cabinet makers, making and designing unique pieces, using hand selected, luxurious materials with a combination of modern machinery with traditional techniques. As our work is all bespoke, it would be an on-going task to update catalogues, so we direct all architects and designers to our website, which shows up-to-date examples of our work, also, if required we can send high resolution images, should you need these for mood boards. Working with national and international architects and interior designers and some amazing private clients, who have all given us stunning commissions to include in our portfolio. For over 40 years, John and his team of highly trained dedicated, skilled cabinetmakers have built a reputation for quality, creativity, and a high level of customer satisfaction. Our large, fully equipped workshop area includes adequate individual areas for each cabinetmaker to work in. This is impractical for larger manufacturers, who depend on volume and robotic processes and mac
By Nicki Beavan 31 May, 2022
We are incredibly sensitive to our environment and do our utmost to conserve and protect our planet, our workshops are given light from low energy LED lighting, our roof is fitted with solar panels, giving us some of the electricity we use and at present have saved 1,544.02kg in emissions the equivalent of planting 70.68 trees since November 2021, as we use trees, we also love to plant trees and to date we have planted a variety of 150 native trees, we control our waste by using our wood shavings to heat our workshop with our biomass boiler and we do our utmost to shop local using local suppliers for sheet/timbers, saving fuel miles and local skilled trades
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