Meet the team here at Matthew Burt Workshop and Showroom

While we can’t get together in person for the time being, we hope you can cosy down & enjoy exploring our new site.

While we can’t get together in person, we hope you will enjoy exploring our new site.

JUSTIN
Master maker & our resident zen meister keeping it calm.

HARRY
Senior maker & our major mathematician.

MATTHEW
Design, strategy & ethos. Co-founder of the Company.

TOP SALES DOG

ZAK
Senior maker, our guardian & keeper of machines

OLIVIA
Apprentice maker, entering that all-important middle stage of her apprenticeship.

RICK
Master maker & our guardian of standards.

CELIA
Administration, strategy & ethos. Co-founder of the Company.

DAN
Master maker & our 'get it done’ specialist.

CHIEF WORKSHOP DOG

RHIANNON
Marketing & letting you know what we’re all up to.

TOM
Apprentice maker, beyond the halfway mark of his apprenticeship.

Matthew Burt HQ Design Studio

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This 'Island desk' is the final piece in a range o

This 'Island desk' is the final piece in a range of desks & dressers made from bog oak, (with a tiger oak version thrown in with the last pic for good measure). It's not enough for a design to hide behind 'fancy timber', it has to stand on its own merit & deliver on function, aesthetics and inspire sufficient response to be desirable, hopefully purchased & loved. If you get it right it will continue to be recognised as good work, giving good service for generations to come. If you can 'speak' of your own times beyond the whims of fad & fashion you stand a better chance it will weather the vagaries of time, if it's also made well, those chances are only improved. I love the tussle between the dirt of the market place and the designing & making pieces of sufficient twenty-first century relevance to enable me to get up tomorrow and do the same that I did today. If you can do that you are indeed a lucky person. A heartfelt thank you goes out to all those that over the last forty five years have made my waking of a morning so worthwhile. #lovenpeace #hymntotheartisans #supportpeopleinsheds #makersandmaking #designingandmaking #britishdesign #britishmaking #englishfurniture #furnituredesigning #furnituremaking #britishtimber #commissionfurniture #bespokefurniture #breakonthroughtotheotherside #thankgoditsfriday #lovenoeace

Another Friday evening in these torrid times and a

Another Friday evening in these torrid times and another small reason to treat ourselves as best we can & to clutch to all the small pleasures we may. We are fortunate that we can still, with the help of strict hygiene, distancing protocols and willing participation, keep designing & making for you. This week's piece is another for our delightful clients in Bath (may they have rose petals strewn before them), those that we are developing a new chair for as I write. Made from English bog oak , rescued & seasoned by the national living treasure Hamish Low. This tree had been lurking in a bog near Peterborough, a victim of global warming & its subsequent flooding & deluge 5300 years ago! The customised rippled ash interiors are made from a victim of a millennial storm, so a mere nanosecond in comparison. They do however make wonderful partners. #supportpeopleinsheds #hymntotheartisans #englishtimber #britishmaking #british design #britishdesignermakers #marchofthemakers #cityofbath #breakonthroughtotheotherside #keepontrucking #thankgoditsfriday #lovenpeace

It's a murky Friday evening in deepest winter but

It's a murky Friday evening in deepest winter but we are lucky to be able to go to work. Yes there's lots of hygiene & distancing protocols but unlike many we can carefully keep making. This English bog oak & rippled ash tambour-fronted bureau was designed & made for wonderful clients in Bath, who continue to come back, with generous frequency, for more. We are making a batch of very exciting dining chairs to accompany their 'Centenary Curved Kitchen Table', delivered just before Christmas, as I write, I'll show you all the results when we deliver. Try to eek the best from these torrid times #keeponinthere #lovenpeace #respecttoallkeyworkers #breakonthroughtotheotherside #supporteachother #nochancedryjanuary

Our showroom is now closed until further notice. Y

Our showroom is now closed until further notice. You can shop with us via our new online shop though! Please take a peek if you haven’t already (link in our bio). Our workshop will continue to run as usual with further COVID measures to protect our team. If you’re interested in anything you see online or in the showroom window please get in touch - we’re here to help. We’re very excited about our plans for the year and are most looking forward to welcoming you all back when we reopen. Onwards and Upwards! #2021 #newyear #furnituremaker #craftsmanshipmatters #shoplocal #shopindependent #wiltshirelife #21stcenturyfurniture

Farewell to 2020 which, as always with adversity,

Farewell to 2020 which, as always with adversity, teaches us so much and welcome 2021 which I hope may provide some answers. Happy New Year to all #lovenpeace #breakonthroughto theotherside #keepontruckin

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