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The studio

Nine people, a drawing office over a joinery shop, and one kind of client: somebody who loves an old house.

  • Designers and joiners under one roof
  • Thirty-one listed buildings so far
  • Insured for design and for site
Two members of the studio reading a drawing at a workbench

How we began

Isobel Lark trained as an architect and spent six years on new buildings she did not much like. Daniel Field is a joiner who had spent the same six years repairing old ones.

In 2012 they refitted a kitchen in Larkhall together and discovered they agreed about nearly everything.

How we work now

Eight houses a year, never more. Every project has one designer who draws it and stays with it to the last day.

The joinery is made downstairs, by people who can walk up and ask what a drawing means. It saves a great many mistakes.

So far

2012

The first kitchen

A terrace in Larkhall, drawn and made by two people.

2015

The workshop

We take the ground floor of a former brass foundry on the Lower Bristol Road.

2018

A Grade I house

Our first work in the Circus, with consent granted at the first application.

2023

Bath Preservation Trust

A commendation for the repair of a shopfront in Walcot Street.

Who you will meet

Isobel Lark

Isobel Lark

Designer and founder

Draws the first plan by hand, usually at your kitchen table.

Daniel Field

Daniel Field

Joiner and founder

Runs the workshop and chooses every board himself.

Marcus Reeve

Marcus Reeve

Site manager

On your site every working day, and tidy to a fault.

Hannah Okoro

Hannah Okoro

Designer

Lighting, colour and the patience for listed building consent.

Come and see the workshop

We are open to visitors on Friday afternoons. There is usually a kitchen half made and always a pot of tea.