sean sutcliffe

from outfitting office spaces in The Gherkin to panelling The Connaught’s penthouse and working with designers such as David Rockwell and Sir Terence Conran, Sean Sutcliffe’s Benchmark furniture company has been raising the bar on natural, sustainable design in the UK for the last 35 years.

‘I always liked making things,’ Sean says of his passionate pursuit of joinery from an early age. ‘I remember being about 17,