Greengate Furniture Ltd.

An antique chair, recently re-upholstered for a customer using the fabulous Langrish, by - the result speaks for itself.

The exquisite linen print has breathed new life into this piece, which is now set to continue to be cherished for years to come.

If you’ve a specialist piece you would like recovered, please get in touch to see how we can assist in making your vision a reality. 🟢⚪️

Fabric: Langrish - 05 Blue

With our showroom revitalisation project coming to an end, we can’t wait to welcome everyone to our new and improved space!

Drop by for a coffee and a chat to see our traditional furnishings range spread over 4 new rooms, with a surprise or two along the way!

We would love to see how we can help you or your client’s vision come to fruition, and we welcome you to make an appointment today. Bookings can be made over the phone, by email or through any of our media channels - see you soon!

Today, we have the pleasure of working with the fantastic Datura linen (Pink/Green), producing two new loose covers for a customer’s Oxford Sofa and Chair.

We can’t wait to see this beautiful fabric made up and in its final form!

✅ A customer's bespoke Fitzroy Sofa sits atop a workshop trolley, ready for packaging and delivery.

🔨 With its individually coil-sprung platform and signature Greengate frame, this piece will seat generations in comfort. Built to last using sustainable materials, these pieces are investments that are fundamentally green in their nature.

💚 We hope that the care and diligence we put into this and every piece is reflected in the joy our customers experience in ownership!

On a different tack to our usual posts, we have decided to start the week with a little bit about the history of Greengate! Today in the spotlight: W.V.Hearn.

Greengate is and has always been a family firm, and Walter Hearn was the second member to run the business after his father, Vincent Hearn (who was also W.V.Hearn, but went by his middle name).

Walter took the business from a one man band (Vincent Hearn Upholstery and French Polishing) to its first dedicated premises: a shed in a field in Sands, which back then was discrete from High Wycombe. The site still exists today and is currently occupied by Sabeti Wain Aerospace.

The company rapidly expanded and soon enough Walters’ son (also Walter - there was a bit of a naming theme in those days) joined up with his father, representing the third generation in the firm. Thus the trend has repeated until the present day!

Although we no longer operate from a small shed in Sands, we thankfully still have a pair of original chairs that Walter Hearn made by hand, 101 years ago. Indeed, in the second photo (taken in 1923) Walter can be seen operating a pole lathe with some carving patterns on the wall, giving an insight into some of the very manual machinery of the time.

We’re proud to say that we continue the traditions of English furniture making to the present day and we hope that Walter would be equally proud that we’ve continued to build on the foundations that he laid, over a century ago.