2011
One bench
Tom rents half the barn and makes the farmer a table.
How we began
Tom Ashby trained as a joiner in Bristol and spent twelve years making staircases for builders. In 2011 he rented half of this barn, one bench and a bandsaw.
The first commission was a farmhouse table for the farmer who owns the barn. It is still in his kitchen.
How we work now
Four of us, three benches and about thirty pieces a year. We take no more work than we can make ourselves.
Each piece has one maker who draws it, makes it and fits it, and whose name is burnt into it under a drawer or a seat.
