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Inside the workshop

From furniture
to materials.

Begin with finished furniture and storage,
then look back through the work to the materials.

Explore the work

07Finished furniture & storage

Start with the finished form.

Rows of upholstered recliners, followed by cartons and wrapped furniture in storage.

Rows of grey recliners.
Wide view of cartons and white wrapped packages on pallets.

06Cutting & upholstery

Behind the upholstered seat.

Upholstery workstations and chair supports, then the fabric and cutting tables behind them.

Upholstery workstation beside the inspection area.
Upholstery workstation and black chair supports.
Work area with workers making upholstered chairs.
Long worktables and a central aisle in the cutting area.
Fabric and workstations in the cutting and sewing workshop.

05Foam materials & shaping

A closer look at the layers.

Foam-covered frames, shaped pieces and sheets across the foam work area.

Foam-covered chair frames and shaped foam pieces.
Foam-covered frames and a manual pallet truck.
Foam sheets and foam-covered furniture frames.
Foam sheets and an aisle in the foam-covering workshop.
Round worktable and overhead equipment in the foam area.

04Frames & assembly

Underneath the soft layers.

Sinuous-spring seat frames, assembly work and stacks of wooden chair structures.

Close-up of sinuous springs fitted in a wooden seat frame.
Workers fitting sinuous springs to wooden seat frames.
Wooden seat frames with sinuous springs stacked in tiers.
Workers assembling wooden chair frames.
Stacks of wooden chair frames.
Wooden frames with round openings and chair frames.
Portrait view of wooden chair frames and seat frames.

03Machining & equipment

Where the parts take shape.

Woodworking tables and prepared panels, alongside metalworking stations and operators.

Sliding-table circular saw and panel worktable.
Rectangular panels stacked in front of woodworking equipment.
Woodworking equipment and shaped panels beside windows.
Woodworking equipment and panels beneath dust-extraction ducts.
Blue pallets and panels in front of woodworking equipment.
Woodworking area and a long aisle beside windows.
Processing equipment and cardboard beside a window.
Worker operating flywheel metalworking equipment.
Wide view of the metalworking workshop and yellow flywheel equipment.
Portrait view of metalworking equipment and a worker.
Close-up of a suspended work booth and small metal parts.

02Materials & prepared parts

Back to the materials.

Sorted wood strips, panels and rolls of material, with cardboard prepared for packaging.

Wood strips sorted on metal carts.
Close-up of wood strips and a handwritten dimension list.
Wood strips and panels on tiered carts.
Curved panels and long wood strips on carts.
Long wood-strip carts and wooden frames in the materials area.
Portrait view of panels in tiers on a wooden cart.
Red and grey rolls of material stored indoors.
Stacks of packaging cardboard and shaped cardboard pieces.
Stacks of shaped packaging cardboard.

01Workshop spaces

The spaces around the work.

A final view across the assembly workshop, cardboard preparation area and entrance aisles.

Wide view of the wooden-frame assembly workshop aisle.
Wide view of a window-side aisle in the cardboard preparation workshop.
Inspection-area entrance aisle with cartons.

From the workshop to your brief

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