Managed Production
Made across our partner workshops
Make Bespoke Studio manufactures across all trades through its partner network: joinery, metalwork, upholstery, stonework, spraywork and specialist decorative techniques. Running every trade through one studio means tighter quality control, better coordination between disciplines and a faster response to design changes.
Our largest partner facility is in Istanbul, alongside partner factories in Bergamo, Lodz and Oman and specialist workshops across the UK and on Murano. All pieces are quality-checked before leaving the factory and re-inspected on arrival in the UK. Across fifteen partner sites, more than 450 craftspeople and over 20,000 m² of production floor are available to a commission.
How the work is done
Fully approved production drawings issued to the workshop team to begin manufacture.
All materials, veneers, hardware and specialist components sourced and checked on arrival.
Joinery, metalwork, upholstery and decorative work carried out by specialist craftspeople.
Each piece inspected against approved drawings and samples before finishing is applied.
Final QC carried out before packing; any defects remedied before the piece leaves the factory.
Further in our process
A network, not a single shed
Production runs through our network of specialist workshops — cabinet-makers, finishers, upholsterers, metalworkers and glass studios — each chosen for the discipline a commission needs, coordinated by one studio team. The model gives a project the best maker for every element without the compromise of forcing all work through one facility’s strengths.
From approved drawing to finished piece
- Production drawings – shop drawings issued from the approved design set, with materials, finishes and hardware called up against the control samples.
- Machining and making – carcasses, frames and components cut and joined; CNC where precision repeats, hand work where judgement leads.
- Finishing – spraying, polishing, patination and upholstery in dedicated facilities; finishes checked against the filed sample boards.
- Quality inspection – every piece inspected against drawing and sample before wrapping; editioned work checked piece by piece, not batch by batch.
Oversight
Progress is photographed and reported through production, and clients or their designers are welcome at the workshops at agreed milestones — first frame, first finish, first complete piece. Nothing leaves for delivery unseen.
Choosing the workshop for the work
Each commission is split by discipline before it is placed. Case goods and lacquer go to a joinery partner, upholstery to an upholstery workshop, metalwork to metalworkers, glass to glassmakers, and the studio coordinates the whole. That is why a single table can carry a base made in one workshop and a top finished in another without the join showing: both work from the same shop drawings and the same control samples, and both are inspected to the same standard.
Quality checks, built into the making
Checks run through production rather than waiting at the end:
- Dimensional checks while components are still loose, so an error is found before it is glued in.
- Finish sign-off against the filed sample board before anything is assembled.
- A dry-fit of fitted and multi-part pieces in the workshop before dispatch, so problems are solved on the bench, not on site.
- A final inspection of every piece against drawing and sample. Editioned work is checked piece by piece, not batch by batch.
Certified where it matters
Partner workshops hold the certifications their discipline calls for: ISO 9001 quality management, FSC and PEFC chain of custody for timber and veneers, and EN 60598-1 safety certification for lighting. We ask for the relevant certificates at specification stage, so a hotel's procurement team or a contractor's quality plan has them from the start. See quality and compliance.
Packed for the journey
Finished pieces travel in custom transit cases, blanket-wrapped and padded, with crates built to the piece rather than the pallet. Delivery and installation are handled by the same project team that managed production, so nothing is handed between strangers at the loading bay.
Common questions
Where is our furniture actually made?
Across a network of fifteen partner workshops in the UK, Poland, Italy, Turkey and Oman, each chosen for the discipline the piece needs. The London studio produces each commission, placing the making with the partner best suited to it.
Ten of those workshops are in the UK, from upholstery and case goods in High Wycombe to lighting in the West Midlands and residential joinery in Essex. Larger runs and further techniques go to partner factories in Istanbul, Lodz and Bergamo, glass to Murano, and rare decorative crafts such as khatam to Oman. Together they bring more than 450 craftspeople and over 20,000 m² of production to a commission, allocated by discipline and brief, never by postcode. See our manufacturing network.
Can we visit the workshops during production?
Yes. Clients and their designers are welcome at agreed milestones (first frame, first finish, first complete piece), and progress is photographed and reported throughout.
Visits are arranged in advance and follow each site's access rules. For many clients, seeing a frame before it is upholstered, or a finish beside its approved sample, is the most useful hour of the commission, because it shows how decisions made on drawings translate into the making. Where travel isn't practical, we share photographs at the same milestones so approvals can be given remotely.
How do you keep one standard across different workshops?
Every workshop works to the same approved drawings, the same filed control samples and the same inspection checklist, and nothing is dispatched until it has passed a final inspection against both.
Control samples are made as matched halves of one board: one stays with you and the other in the workshop, so both sides judge the finish against the same physical reference. Dimensions are checked while components are still loose, finishes are signed off against the sample board before assembly, and fitted or multi-part pieces are dry-fitted in the workshop before dispatch. Editioned work is inspected piece by piece, not batch by batch, and every piece is checked again on arrival in the UK.