Twin brothers Antony and Richard Joseph may not have envisaged running a multimillion-pound homeware business together one day, but they’ve always enjoyed making things.
As children, they spent hours squirrelled away in their family garage with their brothers (also twins) and two sisters. More often than not, their latest crazy contraption wouldn’t work or wasn’t entirely practical. “We once decided to build a sand yacht – like a sailing boat on wheels – but we grew up in landlocked Birmingham and couldn’t have been farther from the beach,” says Richard, CEO of Joseph Joseph. “Sadly it never made it out of the garage.”
