The Workshop

Furniture designed by Reflex Furniture Limited is constructed in a large 12,000 square foot modern workshop occupied since 1997. We have 14 highly skilled cabinet makers, a full time workshop director, production coordinator, sander and a spray finisher. The building is centrally heated in the hand workshop area and benefits from a thirty foot ceiling enabling large cabinets to be fully assembled prior to installation and allows the craftsmen to work unhindered. Each cabinet maker has his own bench and his own personal set of tools. Jobs are carried from start to finish by individual craftsmen or by a small team led by a master craftsman. This ensures that from selection of materials, to machining, to marquetry cutting, construction and careful preparation of the piece for lacquering, the highest quality is maintained throughout the piece. Each maker takes enormous pride in producing unsurpassed quality and adding the piece to their own personal portfolio of achievements.

The Machinery

The machinery installed is regularly tested for safety with factory style dust extraction removing waste. Our workshop is one of the cleanest one can find anywhere, this promotes an orderly approach to making. We have a good range of classic woodworking machines duplicated to allow access at all times for each maker to proceed with their work. These are supplemented by more specialist machines to assist with accurate and efficient production where repetition of size of component is key. These include a 1300 wide belt sander for calibrating and veneer sanding, a 4 sided planer for uniform timber sections, and two veneer presses and veneer saws for in house veneering.

Ability

We pride ourselves on in house technical ability married to the superb skill of the makers. This enables us to solve constructional challenges encountered with bespoke furniture and fitted installations. We are often asked to design and incorporate engineered mechanisms to allow for access to secret compartments elsewhere on the piece. Our approach to construction provides for stability and strength throughout the life of the piece.

Specialists

We have built up an enviable supply chain of specialist subcontractors and suppliers whose expertise is often incorporated into the furniture and fittings we make. These include marquetry cutters, carvers, turners, guilders, french polishers, glass suppliers and engravers, engineers in metals such as stainless steel, brass, aluminium and silver. Other experts supply granite and marble, plating services, eglomise mirrors, leathers, games pieces, brassware, boulle work, CNC work, handmade clock movements etc.

Delivery

We wrap and deliver all our work ourselves using our own van and experienced driver, who makes trips to London at least once a month but usually twice a month. Our driver will ensure that each piece is carefully unwrapped and positioned as requested.

Experience

We have significant experience in UK and Overseas cabinet and panelling installations. These commissions are fully manufactured in our own premises by a team of makers who then travel to site to unpack and install the cabinet work. This usually requires site visits prior to production to ensure a perfect fit is achieved. Scribing to walls, floors and skirtings are often necessary and always allowed for. Completed installations have been built in New York, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Kuwait and a variety in London.

Our breadth of experience ranges from corporate installations and furniture, domestic tables and bookcases, tv cabinets, bedroom furniture, highly specified kitchens, simple and complex jewel boxes, elaborate extraordinary furniture through to everyday furniture whether simple in form or highly decorated.

Quality

By nature, makers must arrive at Reflex Furniture Limited with certain attributes of ability, skill and attitude. It takes from 2 to 4 years to move each maker towards the optimum level so he or she is in tune with their work so it becomes second nature. Our dedication to quality by only making furniture at the highest level and by employing so many makers with talent ensures that there is a cross fertilisation of ideas which spreads quickly within the workshop further ensuring that all work goes out with that obvious but indefinable quality.