A bespoke trade partner, end to end
Bespoke furniture, joinery, lighting and flooring for interior designers and architects — a bespoke interior design manufacturer working to the trade. London and internationally.
Make Bespoke Studio works as a manufacturing partner to interior designers and architects. You bring the drawings and the intent; we make the furniture, joinery and lighting, and stay responsible from first sketch to final installation. We operate as a trade supplier, built around your scheme, your client and your programme.
Most commissions begin with your concept or technical drawings. We advise on feasibility, materials and detailing, prepare samples, and quote transparently before anything moves to production. Where a detail can be improved, we will say so; where a tolerance matters, we will hold it. The result is a piece that matches your design intent and performs for years.
We exist because craft usually gets lost at the first costing, so we have the technical conversation with each maker before anything is cut, and where the budget needs it we look for another way to make the piece. See why we exist and how we work.
We make across casegoods, upholstery, fitted joinery, lighting and timber flooring, drawing on a network of specialist workshops across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. A single point of contact can coordinate the whole package for a room or a building, rather than splitting it across several trades.
We work with practices on residential, hospitality and yacht schemes across prime central London, including Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Chelsea, and internationally. Recent collaborations span London, Monaco, the South of France and the United States, across private residences, hotels, restaurants and members clubs. We are as comfortable with a single statement piece as a multi-floor fit-out.
If you are an interior designer or architect looking for a bespoke furniture manufacturer for the trade, we would be glad to discuss your project, review your drawings and prepare a sample and estimate.
A selection of named projects
Hospitality, hotel suites, restaurants, private residences and offices, delivered with interior designers and architects across London, Europe and the United States.
One studio. Many workshops.
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We sit between your practice and a network of specialist makers. You deal with one person, one quote, one programme. Behind that sits the right workshop for each discipline.
A vetted maker network
We match each commission to the right workshop, chosen for mastery of a specific discipline. Joinery in Essex, metalwork in Sussex, upholstery in High Wycombe, glass in Devon and Murano. Every facility is vetted, visited and held to the same standard.
One point of contact
One person coordinates your entire project: sampling, pricing, production, delivery, installation. No chasing separate trades. No conflicting programmes. One thread from brief to handover.
Logistics handled
We manage freight, customs and site delivery. Pieces arrive wrapped, protected and on programme. We coordinate with your project team and stand behind the work after handover.
We work to your process
Your drawings lead. We advise on feasibility and detailing, but the design intent is always yours. We fit into your programme, your reporting structure and your site schedule.
The best projects happen when we disappear into the background. The designer's name is on the piece, not ours. We are here to make it real.
Everything between your drawing and the installed piece
From your drawings to installed pieces
1. Drawings and feasibility. Send your concept or technical drawings. We assess feasibility, propose materials and detailing, and flag anything worth refining before it costs you time.
2. Samples and pricing. We prepare material and finish samples and quote transparently, line by line, so you and your client can decide with confidence.
3. Prototyping and shop drawings. For complex pieces we produce prototypes and detailed shop drawings for sign-off, so dimensions, finishes and details are agreed before production.
4. Production and lead times. Pieces are made to specification across our specialist workshops, with quality control at each stage and a schedule aligned to your fit-out programme. Lead times depend on scope, finish and any specialist craftsmanship. As a guide: discrete furniture pieces are typically the fastest, joinery fit-outs and contract programmes span the middle, and decorative craftsmanship (marquetry, gilding, hand-carved or glass-blown work) needs the longest runway. A specific programme is agreed at brief stage and aligned to your site schedule.
5. Delivery and installation. We coordinate delivery and installation on site, working alongside your project team, and stand behind the work after handover.
A complete bespoke package
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Working with us
Do you work from our drawings?
Yes. Most commissions begin with your concept or technical drawings. We advise on feasibility, materials and detailing, prepare samples, and quote before production. Your design intent leads, and we make it.
Do you offer trade pricing?
Yes. We quote on a trade basis for interior designers and architects, transparently and line by line.
Every cost is itemised (materials, labour, finishing, hardware and freight), so you can see what each specification decision costs and brief your client with confidence. We price against your drawings and finishes schedule and can return a detailed breakdown suitable for a competitive tender; where specifications are still open, provisional sums are shown with their assumptions written down. If a package needs to come in lower, we set out the as-drawn price alongside alternatives, such as a veneer achieving the drawn effect of solid timber or a change of sheen, so the design team decides what changes, not the maker. Once scope is agreed the price is fixed, and variations are costed in writing before any work changes. As a guide, our cost guide puts a bespoke dining table at £3,000–£30,000+ depending on size, materials and finish. There are no hidden margins.
What are your lead times?
Most commissions take 10 to 16 weeks from approval of shop drawings and samples to delivery, after two to four weeks of design development.
By discipline, casegoods and upholstery typically run 10–14 weeks, fitted joinery 12–16 weeks including site survey and installation, bespoke lighting 10–14 weeks and Murano glass lighting 14–18 weeks; stone and specialist materials add four to six weeks. A complete fit-out is planned as a programme rather than a single number, run backwards from your installation or opening date. We flag long-lead components (Murano glass, quarried stone, bespoke ironmongery and COM fabrics) in the first programme, so they are ordered against drawing approval rather than discovered mid-production, and we report progress against the programme at agreed milestones. Programmes slip on approvals far more often than in the workshop, so we agree decision dates with you at the outset, and where a date cannot be met we say so at quotation. See our lead times.
Do you deliver and install?
Yes. We coordinate freight, customs where needed and white-glove delivery to site, and install alongside your project team through to handover.
Pieces travel in custom transit cases and crates built to the piece. Before delivery we check site readiness against the programme and protect adjacent finishes; fitted joinery is scribed to the room and fixed to structure, and furniture is positioned and levelled in place. Installation typically takes one to five days on site, followed by a formal snagging inspection with you and a written sign-off. On hotel and commercial projects we work inside the main contractor's programme, with inductions, RAMS and night working where a venue is trading. After handover we stand behind the work: if something needs attention, we come back, and the project record we keep means a finish can be matched or a piece extended years later.
Can you make furniture, joinery, lighting and flooring for one project?
Yes. We make across all four disciplines, so a single point of contact can coordinate the whole package for a room or a building, rather than splitting it across several trades.
Where do you work?
We work with practices across prime central London and internationally, from our studio at Chelsea Harbour. Recent projects include commissions in Monaco and the South of France, and our work has shipped across Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
Production draws on a network of fifteen partner workshops and factories: ten in the UK, backed by specialist factories in Italy, Poland, Turkey and Oman. Each is chosen for the discipline a piece needs, from upholstery and case goods in High Wycombe and residential joinery in Essex to lighting in the West Midlands, hand-blown glass on Murano and rare decorative techniques in Oman. That gives a single commission access to more than 450 craftspeople without forcing every element through one facility's strengths. For international projects our project management team coordinates freight, customs and installation partners on the ground, with the studio as your single point of contact throughout. See our manufacturing network.
The practices we’ve made for
The trade network page lists the interior design practices, architects and hospitality operators we’ve had the privilege of making for — 1508 London, Bryan O’Sullivan Studio, Concrete Amsterdam, David Collins Studio, Elicyon, Laura Hammett, Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Pierre Yovanovitch and others. Trade-led; alphabetical; quietly updated.
Tell us about your scheme
Email us at studio@makebespoke.com, or fill in the form below with your details and we’ll get back to you. If you’d rather talk it through, book a 30-minute call.