Lorfords Blog

Collaboration: Thyme & Bertioli x Lorfords Contemporary

Collaboration: Thyme & Bertioli x Lorfords Contemporary

We are so excited to unveil our debut collaboration with our friends over at Bertioli, the sibling brand of destination hotel Thyme in the Cotswold...

Re-Purposed: Our New Soft Furnishings Collection

Introducing our debut collection of luxury cushions, each individually hand-made using surplus fabric left-overs from completed upholstery designs....

Lorfords Contemporary x Turner Pocock - 'The Swedish Bench'

We're thrilled to say that we've been back working again with formidable design duo, Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock - of award-winning design studio ...

Lorfords Contemporary x Haines - Introducing 'The Hendal'

We’re thrilled to unveil our latest furniture collaboration which we’ve designed in partnership with Jules Haines, founder of award winning eco-int...

Lorfords Contemporary meets... Jules Haines

We’ve long been fans of Haines’s award-winning work in the interiors industry and are thrilled to have collaborated with them for our latest slipp...

Our Vintage Cloth eco-collection

As regular followers will know, all of our Lorfords Contemporary designs are hand-made to individual customer requirements, from fabrics and filli...

Lorfords Contemporary meets… Natasha Hulse

We sit down in the studio with textile artist Natasha Hulse to discuss her career, inspirations and find out all about her latest collaboration wi...

Interior Stylist Notes: Meet Jessica Jung

Interiors stylist Jessica Jung has styled hundreds of room-sets throughout her career, creating different schemes for traditional and modern spaces...

Natural Evolution: Our eco-conscious bespoke headboards

Our latest headboard collaboration with artist Natasha Hulse marks a major step forward for us as we introduce natural latex foam to our main colle...

Our latest collaboration: Lorfords Contemporary x Natasha Hulse

Our latest collaboration has finally arrived! We’ve been working on this design collaboration over the last few months with appliqué artist Natasha...

Finishes and Fabrics : A Guide to Skirts

We have seen a huge range of skirts come through our workshop this year, and we think they may be back to stay. To help you choose the best style o...

We're Hiring

Everything is going well down at our Stroud upholstery studio, so much so that we are looking for another upholsterer to join our team. If you kno...

Finishes and Fabrics: Detailing with Nails and Tacks

Types of upholstery nails have been used for furniture finishing for at least 500 years. Historically, brass, iron alloy or copper alloy domed nail...