Ireland · since 2019
Built for rooms with a tape measure in them
30 pieces in four materials, every one of them drawn for a bedroom that is smaller than the one in the catalogue photograph.
30 pieces in four materials, every one of them drawn for a bedroom that is smaller than the one in the catalogue photograph.
Noon & Nest began in 2019 with a bed that did not fit. The frame was 18 cm wider than the mattress, which the product page had not mentioned, and in a 2.6 m room those 18 cm were the difference between a nightstand and a book on the floor. The bed went back, and the two of us who sent it back started drawing frames that added 2 cm instead.
That is still the brief. Every piece here is designed from the room inwards: how wide is the wall, how deep is the gap beside the bed, will the box go up the stairs. The product page gives the dimensions, the load, the assembly time and the one thing about the material that you would otherwise find out the hard way.
The range is 30 pieces and grows by two or three a year. A piece joins when we have made a hundred without changing the drawing, and leaves when we find a better way to make the same thing.
Three woods, one steel
We do not use veneered board where solid wood will do, and we say so on the two pieces where veneer is the better choice. Everything wooden is finished with hardwax oil rather than lacquer, because oil can be renewed at home and lacquer cannot.
European oak, air-dried then kiln-dried, for beds, desks, shelves and the stools. Hard and heavy. It darkens a shade in its first year and wants a coat of oil every two or three.
Paler and lighter than oak, with a straighter grain, for the nightstands and benches that get carried about. It marks faster from water than oak does: a coaster matters.
Scandinavian pine, knotty grade, for the pieces that need to be cheap and light. It dents, and the knots can weep a bead of resin in a warm room. We would rather you knew that than paid for oak you did not need.
Square tube and rod, welded in Ireland and coated in charcoal, moss or chalk. It never creaks or warps. The charcoal shows fingerprints until it has been wiped a few times, and a hard knock will chip any coating.
A small range is defined by what it leaves out.
Nothing here is a version of another maker's chair, lamp, shelf or bed. Every drawing is ours, and the terms say so.
Every flat-pack piece uses steel bolts into threaded inserts. It can be taken apart for a move and put back together as tight as the first time, which cam locks cannot.
Wardrobes, sofas and dining tables belong to a different shop. Our deepest piece is a 55 cm desk, because that is what fits under a bedroom window.
It looks perfect for a year and cannot be repaired. Oil can.
We make the frame and tell you the mattress size it takes. The mattress is a different trade with its own trial periods, and we leave it to them.
Send the room's measurements, the width of the door and a note about the stairs. We will say which pieces go in, which way the box turns on the landing, and if nothing fits we will say that too.
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