Bespoke · By Commission
Furniture made for one room, one life, one home — yours.
The Owl + Fox Studio, Pretoria
The Bespoke Service
A Piece Your Own

Some rooms ask for something that doesn't exist yet — a table sized to an awkward alcove, a sofa in a fabric you've been carrying around as a swatch for months, a headboard that finishes a room the way nothing off the floor could.

Our bespoke service is a conversation between you and our workshop. You bring the room and the idea; we bring four decades of combined making. Every commission is built once, for one address, and signed off by the hands that made it.

Step 01 · The Conversation
Step 01 · The Conversation
The Shape an Idea

Send us a photograph, a floor plan, or just a feeling. We'll talk through how the piece will be used, the light it will live in, and the materials that suit both.

From there we draw. You'll receive a sketch, a materials board, and a fixed quote — nothing goes to the workshop until the drawing feels like yours.

Step 02 · The Making
Step 02 · The Making
The Work Our Hands

Your commission is cut, joined, and finished in our Pretoria workshop — one maker responsible for the piece from first cut to final coat.

We photograph the work in progress and share it as we go. Lead times are honest: a considered piece takes six to ten weeks, and we'd rather tell you that now.

The best piece in a room is the one that couldn't have come from anywhere else.
Step 03 · The Delivery
Step 03 · The Delivery
The Last Mile the Making

We deliver and place the piece ourselves in the Pretoria metro, and work with trusted couriers across South Africa for everything else.

Every commission leaves with its care notes and our workshop guarantee — and a standing invitation to bring it back to us if it ever needs attention.

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The Start Something Yours

We take a limited number of commissions each season so that every piece gets the workshop time it deserves. Current lead time is six to ten weeks from approved drawing.

If you're not sure whether your idea is a bespoke piece or something we already make, send it anyway — the conversation costs nothing, and we'll point you honestly in the right direction.

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The Start Something Yours

Tell us about the piece you have in mind — we answer every enquiry personally, and the conversation costs nothing.

WORKSHOP Pretoria,
South Africa
LEAD TIME 6 – 10 weeks from approved drawing
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