Interiors
Herringbone House Launches Free-Standing Furniture Collection as One-Off Purchases with New Table Designs
Herringbone House, the award winning, family run cabinet and furniture maker announces its first collection of one-off free-standing furniture available as one-off purchases. The current selection includes tables, bedside tables and dressing tables, designed as heirloom pieces to be passed down to family, all handcrafted in the company’s workshop in Canterbury. Further designs will be added to the collection on a regular basis to Herringbone House’s ‘Shop’ section of their website.
The company has long been designing and making much more than kitchens; however, this is the first time that furniture pieces will be available to purchase outside of a home project. This is part of the new Herringbone House concept following the opening of the new studio back in September of this year.
The Herringbone Collection: Table Designs
After many requests over the 10 years the company has been designing, Herringbone has started their collection of free-standing furniture and made them available to buy online. The idea with the collection is that new designs will be added frequently to allow clients to purchase one-off pieces that complement their homes and can be passed down through generations.
To start off with, six pieces of furniture have been included in the ‘Shop’ section of the website, these include The Cake Stand, The Pillar, The Dinner Party Table, The Bedside Book Table, You Are Beautiful and The Little Vanity all bespoke, individual and unique pieces of furniture. Full details and prices are available here.
Herringbone House: The Concept
With the opening of Herringbone House in September 2024, founders Elly Simmons and William Durrant created an inviting space overlooking Canterbury Cathedral that feels nothing like a traditional showroom. Herringbone House is a space where you want to sit at the bar for hours or cozy up in the seating to have a cuppa with a friend. When designing their new studio with in-house interior designer Martyna Nicolson, they focused on making it an entertaining space that pushes the traditional boundaries of what a showroom should be. They designed a large bar, library and upholstered comfy seating around the space. They even included a secret wine room, with access behind a library door.
The 1st floor space can be rented out as an event space on its own, creating a new concept for displaying and selling full home kitchens, furniture and interior design projects. While some parts of Herringbone House look and feel like you are visiting a friend’s home, other parts feel more like a luxury hotel that you visit for a weekend retreat. Every room in the grade-2 listed building has been designed to show what can be achieved for each room in your home, both from an interior design and bespoke cabinetry design perspective. Working with some of the best interior retailers such as House of Hackney, Dedar and Pierre Frey, they’ve created an inviting space, decorated with curated art, antiques fair finds and images of their team. Everything is made by Herringbone with the highest level of craftsmanship and quality. The top two floors will be used as rooms to rent and will commence in 2025.
Celebrating 10 Years and Staying True to Our Values
Herringbone House celebrates 10 years in business this year and continues to strive to push design trends and industry matters, being at the forefront of progressing the industry in working standards and craftsmanship. Full joinery projects are frequently being created as clients see the benefits of bespoke and well-designed joinery throughout their home. Everything Herringbone House makes is handcrafted by their skilled craftsmen in their workshop in Canterbury.
Our ethos has always been so important to how we run our family business. This year Herringbone became the first company in the industry in the UK to ban the use and sale of high-silica worktops in order to protect their team, suppliers and clients and encourage the industry to follow suit. In addition, Herringbone has made a conscious decision from the beginning to only use sustainably sourced materials, make each design in the UK in their Canterbury-based workshop, use water-based low VOC paint as part of their Herringbone Paints range and dedicate a tree to the National Forest for each project made.
These are all small, but important things Herringbone House does to reduce their impact on the environment and on the industry. This new venture continues to be part of that promise and commitment. This again is very rare in this industry and while it is never an easy option, it stays true to the company’s ethos.
