It all goes back to knowing the material, and knowing your own worth. That’s the big message from Andrew Lowe, owner and director of a bespoke furniture making business that is relatively unique in terms of its size, and the scale of work it undertakes. ‘There are a lot of bespoke manufacturers with one, two or three people. There’s probably not a lot with eight or nine’, said Andrew.
‘When the big interior design companies want a manufacturer that’s not a joiner and not a cabinetmaker, they have a tendency to come to us’, explains Andrew. ‘Lowe Furniture is not like an office furniture company, or out in the marketplace with furniture produced at low price points. Our price points are our price points, and there’s not much we can do about that. If you were to compare us to cars, we’d be Bentleys or Aston Martins.’
Andrew’s formal training
