Handmade Freestanding & Fitted Furniture Maker - Simon White

Designer Maker

I trained as a carpenter, attaining a City and Guilds qualification in 1990 and then honed my woodworking skills by running a small but busy fitted furniture business in London and the South East for over 20 years, all the time taking further courses in furniture making....Carpentry, as with many craft professions, is a life long process of learning and re-examination & each project is a learning opportunity in some way or other....   I like to combine quality workmanship  & materials - creating pieces with ‘character’  & love to use contrasting colours and inlays.  I enjoy working with others to bring to life their ideas & the look & feel envisaged whether it is fitted or freestanding furniture

Whilst I am still busy making fitted furniture...   I have transitioned to using more solid wood and  making  freestanding woodrn  furniture  which has enabled me to entirely design some of my own work in recent years, as well as upcycling vintage pieces.

My mothers family have lived in Dorset for generations and we moved here to care for her in her final years, having formerly spent most of her life in Norfolk, London & finally Hastings.   She lived in Bournemouth throughout her childhood, but spent several happy years during the war in a small valley near Upway, whilst most of her elder brothers were away in the Army or Navy,  . We have visited the Dorset area all our lives, so extending my business here seemed a natural progression

At Attic Gallery Furniture we strive to ensure that all wood that we use is FSC or PEFC certified…and by careful use of the many beautiful woods we are also celebrating the life of trees,