Built to last,
made to be kept.
Furniture, upholstery and joinery, made in our Bristol workshop.
We make furniture and interiors to last, and remake what is worth keeping, for homes and commercial spaces across the UK. One workshop in Bristol, one set of standards.
SELECTED WORK
Spaces with character.
Cafés, clubs, hotels and pubs, made in our Bristol workshop.
Trusted by
ONE WORKSHOP IN BRISTOL
Everything made in one place.
Furniture, upholstery and joinery under one roof, from new commissions to pieces worth keeping.
WELCOME TO
It started in a shed.
SWU began in a garden shed in Bristol, where John Ball, a trimmer for First Bus, took on work with his son Andy. John’s grandson Ryan grew up in it, learned the craft at his granddad’s side, and took the business on when he left school. Today it’s a family business in our Bristol workshop, making pieces built to last and remaking what’s worth keeping.
Our story
COMMERCIAL UPHOLSTERY
Made for this fit-out.
And the next.
Designed, built, fitted and brought back for another life, for bars, hotels, clubs, offices and other hard-working spaces.
“The rough idea that we had, SW Upholstery took on and very much polished and crafted into something which I think is a really spectacular piece of furniture. And most importantly, it completely fulfils the brief.”
Alex Reilley, Chairman, Loungers Group
DOMESTIC
Treasured pieces.
There is usually one piece in a house that nobody argues about. The chair your grandmother sat in. The sofa that came with the house and stayed. It might be worn through, sagging, held together by habit. It is still the thing you would carry out of a fire.
We renew pieces like that.
“It was far less expensive than buying a new sofa of the same quality, and saved the sofa from landfill. It will outlive me!”
Claire Peacock · ★★★★★ 5.0 from 208 Google reviews
50–100kg
of CO₂ to re-cover a sofa
200–300kg
of CO₂ to buy a new one