Simply Luxury presents
Smallbone of Devizes
Half a century of handcrafted British kitchens and whole home interiors. Made by hand in Wiltshire, admired in Knightsbridge, Whitehall and Manhattan.
The Icarus Collection
Half a century of handcrafted British kitchens and whole home interiors. Made by hand in Wiltshire, admired in Knightsbridge, Whitehall and Manhattan.
There are kitchens, and then there is a Smallbone. For more than half a century, a market town in the heart of Wiltshire has quietly shaped the way the world's most discerning households live, cook and gather.
It began with a band of artisan designers and an uncompromising vision: to transform the way we live. Their first act of daring was to paint the kitchen by hand. It feels inevitable now; at the time it was a quiet revolution, lifting cabinetry from mere utility into true furniture and granting the kitchen the dignity of a drawing room. The room once hidden behind a service door stepped forward, and took its place at the centre of English life.
Iconic, the hand painted design Smallbone unveiled more than thirty years ago, has been imitated ever since and never surpassed. It set the grammar for the British luxury kitchen, and the house has been writing new chapters in that language ever since: the floating glass of Icarus, the confident modernity of Modernist, the brass and washed oak of a limited edition created with Jason Atherton.
The journey has carried Smallbone far beyond the English shires, to the residences of The OWO on Whitehall, to towers above Central Park and Hudson Yards, and to a four storey pavilion on Brompton Road. Yet every piece still begins in Devizes, where it is made by hand, and every piece still carries the name of the craftsman who made it.
That is the true Smallbone signature. Not a logo, but a name inside a drawer: a promise, written in timber, that somebody cared.
Half a century of milestones, each one made by hand.
In the Wiltshire market town of Devizes, Charlie Smallbone and a small band of artisan designers, Mark Wilkinson among them, set out with an uncompromising vision: to transform the way we live.
Smallbone pioneered hand painted cabinetry, lifting the kitchen from a place of service to a room of furniture, and moving it, for good, to the heart of the home.
The first London showroom opens in Notting Hill, and the capital discovers what Wiltshire already knew.
Unveiled more than thirty years ago and hand painted to order, Iconic becomes the most imitated kitchen in Britain, and remains unsurpassed.
For more than forty years the workshop in Devizes has married traditional joinery with modern machinery. Every piece leaves signed with the name of the craftsman who made it.
Inspired by the curve of a bird's wing, Icarus floats scalloped glass cabinets above the room, glass shaped by a technique known since Roman times.
A 15,000 square foot concept showroom opens across four floors at 100 Brompton Road, a pavilion for the whole Smallbone home.
From the 85 private residences of The OWO on Whitehall to the towers of Manhattan, Smallbone joinery now defines some of the most coveted addresses on earth.
Michelin starred chef Jason Atherton becomes Smallbone's ambassador, and a limited edition collection is born from his Row on 5.
A New York showroom at 88 Madison Avenue is opening soon.
Each piece made in Devizes is marked with the name of the craftsman who made it. Not a logo, but a signature: a quiet promise, written in timber, that someone cared.
Materials are chosen for quality and for conscience. The woods used for Smallbone cabinetry are FSC certified and traceable, so beauty never comes at the forest's expense.
Every kitchen is a close collaboration between designer and client, tailored from a vast palette of timbers, stones, metals and hand painted finishes. No two are ever alike.
The same hand that shapes the kitchen shapes the dressing room, the wine room, the study and the cinema, so that a house flows seamlessly from one room to the next.
Luxury interiors for the whole home, made one signature at a time.
For more than four decades, Smallbone's workshop has stood in Devizes, Wiltshire. It is here that the house's furniture is made by hand.
Traditional joinery meets modern machinery at The Hopton Workshop, where cabinetmakers, painters and finishers work timber that is FSC certified and traceable to its source. Doors are hand painted, veneers are matched by eye, and drawers are dovetailed with the patience of another century.
When a piece is finished, it is signed. Each one is marked with the name of the craftsman who made it, so that a kitchen in Manhattan or a dressing room in Mayfair carries a little of Wiltshire, and a little of the person who made it, wherever it goes.
From the hand painted classic that began it all to a limited edition born in a Michelin starred kitchen. Every collection is a starting point; every kitchen is made for one home alone.
Created with Jason Atherton for the professional home chef. Washed oak inlaid with satin antique brass, a sculpted island, and a handle cast in solid brass in England and finished by hand.
Smallbone's traditional British craftsmanship, translated into a confident contemporary language and set in the finest materials.
The hand painted kitchen that began it all. Unveiled more than thirty years ago, often imitated, never surpassed.
Floating, scalloped glass cabinets: an elegant fusion of age old furniture making and twenty first century engineering.
Polished, poised and made for city living, with every line considered.
A study in calm: pared back forms and tactile surfaces, rich in quiet detail.
The drama of rare veneers, tempered by classical proportion.
The warmth and theatre of a grand Parisian brasserie, brought home.
Named for the first man to fly, and shaped by the parabolic curve of a bird's wing.
Icarus is Smallbone at its most daring. Floating, scalloped glass cabinets form a dramatic centrepiece: a thrillingly elegant fusion of traditional furniture making and twenty first century engineering.
The kitchen was only the beginning. Today the same hands, the same timbers and the same eye for proportion shape every room of the house.
Glazed doors, handmade interiors and illuminated islands: private, intimate spaces where getting dressed is always a pleasure.
Bedside tables, tallboys, armoires and fitted wardrobes in walnut and oak, with a quiet beauty fit for the most important room in the house.
Double vanities, linen storage and stone or marble finishes, for rooms made to escape in and unwind.
Wine walls, cellars and under stairs stores, handcrafted in Devizes for the collector who likes to show his vintages.
Desks, bookcases and panelling designed to last a lifetime.
Fine joinery and integrated technology, from bookcases to panelling and lighting, for the immersive private cinema.
Some of the most celebrated residential addresses on earth have chosen to be furnished from a workshop in Wiltshire.
The former Old War Office, 760,000 square feet of Edwardian grandeur reborn, is now home to 85 private residences, each with a bespoke Smallbone kitchen.
A 70 storey condominium tower designed by Snøhetta, with Smallbone furniture throughout 127 residences.
A full floor penthouse in the tallest residential building in the world, designed with Bryan Brown.
More than a thousand feet above the Hudson, 143 residences pairing interiors by Tony Ingrao with Smallbone kitchens.
Once the home of Dame Margot Fonteyn, now being transformed by K10 Group into a 15,300 square foot mansion.
Michelin starred chef Jason Atherton is Smallbone's ambassador. Theirs is a partnership built on shared values: quality, British heritage, handcrafted creativity and innovation.
Smallbone designed and made the kitchen, the VIP area and the wood panelling for Row on 5, Jason Atherton's restaurant on Savile Row. That restaurant in turn inspired the Atherton x Smallbone collection, a limited edition kitchen for the serious home cook, with a statement island of sweeping curves, a floating display, integrated dining and glazed wall dressers.
Washed oak is inlaid with satin antique brass, and the bespoke handle, designed for Smallbone by Armac Martin, is made from solid brass in England, then finished and polished by hand. In Jason Atherton's own telling, everything he loves about a professional kitchen has been made to work for the beauty of the home.
One of the artisan designers who founded the house in Devizes, and the name that has stood for the finest British kitchens for half a century.
Leads Smallbone today as Chief Executive Officer, guiding the house through its next chapter, from Knightsbridge to Madison Avenue.
The Michelin starred chef whose Row on 5 inspired the limited edition Atherton x Smallbone collection.
And above all, the craftsmen of Devizes, whose names are written inside every piece they make.
Written by our editors and published here first, newest first, each with its date.
100 Brompton Road
Knightsbridge, London SW3 1ER
By private appointment
The Hopton Workshop
Devizes SN10 2EU
+44 (0)1380 729 090
88 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10005
Opening soon
+1 212 288 3494
