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Jermaine Gallacher

Commissioning homewares: London makers can help you live out your fantasies — it costs less than you think

Jermaine Gallacher’s showroom, full of bespoke commissions and one-off pieces

(Picture: Matt Writtle)

If your imagination is not catered for by what’s already out there on the homewares scene then I say make it yourself. Or rather, commission someone else to make it for you — unless you have a full workshop in your back garden and the expertise to use it.

London is full of makers with well-equipped studios and fantastic skills ready to interpret your outlandish designs and turn them into finished objects, and new enclaves of cool craftsmen are popping up as I type.

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