Every furniture manufacturer coordinates something. Few say which parts. This is our line, drawn where it actually falls — useful if you are specifying a piece and need to know what we control directly.
Fully in-house: solid oak and ash fabrication
Machining, joinery and assembly of solid hardwood happen in our own workshop, on our own machines, by people we employ. Frames, legs, tabletops, seat frames, shelving, casework — cut, jointed and assembled here.
Timber selection and sorting are ours too: boards are chosen for colour and grain before machining, which is a decision that cannot be outsourced without losing control of how a batch looks together.
Fully in-house: curved and moulded components
Curved parts are made here by pressing over an MDF/MDP core. It is a genuine in-house capability, not something we place elsewhere, and it sits alongside the machining, shaping, fitting and assembly of solid ash and oak parts — chair backs, spindles, arms, curved rails — which is also ours.
Getting those parts to sit together without a visible seam is joinery work, and it is the part of a chair that takes longest to get right. That includes the trial-and-error on a new geometry, which we absorb rather than pass on as a surcharge.
Fully in-house: hand finishing
Sanding, oiling, soaping, lacquering and tinting are done here, by hand, against the reference sample approved for the project. Finish is the most visible thing in a hospitality room and the easiest to lose consistency on across a batch, so it does not leave the building.
Coordinated with partners: upholstery, metal, stone, hardware
Upholstery is done by specialist workshops we have worked with for years. So is metalwork — bases, brackets, frames — along with stone tops, specialist hardware, and unusual materials such as the Icelandic sheepskin piece in the gallery. We specify, source, schedule and inspect it, but we do not pretend the foam is cut in our building.
Curved and moulded seat shells and specialised pressform-tooled work usually fall into this category too, including the kind used on the Ygg&Lyng chairs. The solid ash and oak components are ours; that shell and its upholstery come from partners.
Why the distinction matters to you — and why it does not
It matters because you should know who is actually holding the tolerance on each part of a piece, and because a manufacturer vague about this is usually vague about more than this.
It does not change how you work with us. One contract, one contact, one schedule, one set of quality checks against the approved prototype — partner-made components are inspected here before they meet our frames. If something is wrong, it is ours to fix, not yours to chase.