Inglis Hall design, make and install bespoke, contemporary kitchens from their 10,000 sqft maker workshop in East Sussex.
Their ethos is to put the craft back into modern kitchens, contentment into the everyday. They do this through an innate understanding of oak timber spanning 30 years, harnessing its beauty, texture and raw aesthetic and pairing it with contemporary materials that will stand the test of time and get better with age.
Fed up of the modern flimsy, mass produced, modular kitchens on offer, Founder Toby Inglis Hall set to work to perfect his desire for better. Combining his years of experience of precision cabinet making and hand-crafted timber framing, in 2013 he devoted his time to creating beautiful handmade kitchens for discerning clients across the UK.
Composed and crafted to suit, precisely, the requirements, desires and ideals of a client, Inglis Hall create beautiful bespoke kitchen and living spaces that deliver peerless quality, traditional craft, sustainable and locally sourced material and intelligent design.
Their ‘Actual Kitchen’ showroom in Lewes, just down the road from their workshop, is exactly that - a place to sit with their designers and design and craft a kitchen without compromise. A space to socialise, collaborate, to try out the ovens, inspect the drawers, open all the cupboards and imagine an Inglis Hall kitchen in their homes.
Every one of their kitchens is handmade to order. Every process is undertaken by the team in their Sussex workshop. It takes on average 500 maker hours to complete and clients can come to the workshop at any time to meet the makers and see their kitchen being made.
Inglis Hall guarantee their kitchens for life.
"Inglis Hall’s style combines contemporary design with traditional construction practices.
Known for their love of real materials and texture, Inglis Hall’s band-sawn oak is their signature material, used alongside modern innovations like Richlite and Fenix. They also have long standing relationships with other local makers, suppliers and artisans who match their values and passion for fine materials, quality, authenticity and provenance."
"A beautiful new-build project has just been completed in East Sussex which was once a commercial farmyard and poultry shed. The new owners wanted to subdivide their light filled cathedral sized open plan living space into working parts. Hardworking parts.
The design scheme centred around Inglis Hall’s signature sawn oak in varying finishes and contrasting contemporary cabinetry. A vast blackened sawn-oak back wall created a new architecture, concealing a large walk-in pantry behind and family sized Fisher & Paykel fridge freezer. Purposeful sliding doors carve out the utility and a raw sawn oak clad boot-room finished with burnished brass handles that would not be out of place on a high street bank.
For the kitchen, Inglis Hall combined a number of traditional handmade joinery accents as well as material innovations like Richlite, a highly durable and sustainable compressed paper material which works beautifully in kitchens alongside their signature sawn oak.
A large central ‘Joiners’ kitchen island, so called as it takes its cues from Inglis Hall’s workshop joiners benches sits centre stage. Sturdy, solid and honest in a traditional pegged mortice and tenon construction. Topped out in the aptly named Cosmic Black Quartz, a meeting place for the celebration of food and drink.
Under the stairs, a run of glazed cabinetry, fluted glass held in place by lambs-tongue mouldings.
And back of stage, every solid oak internal door in the house is Inglis Hall work, bringing simple but effective warmth and texture to the spacious hallway and main entrance space.
This was a project where contemporary material meets modern craft. Transformation complete."
Read more about this project at: https://inglishall.com/projects/ih570/
Leigh Simpson
