"Sometimes You're Just Not Going to Find What You Need" — Why Designers Maddux Creative Turn to Bespoke Design, and the Lessons They've Learned Along the Way

A retro living room with a timber clad roof and a pink curved sofa with patterned sheers.

What do you do if you can't find that absolutely perfect piece of furniture to fit your room? Well, if you've got the budget, and British interior designers like Jo leGleud and Scott Maddux in your corner, then you commission it from scratch. The ability to go bespoke with any element of your home's furnishings — anything from a sofa down to a cabinet pull — isn't something that's in every interior designer's arsenal, but for the founders of Maddux Creative, it's something that's been part of their projects for a long time.

Now, the design studio has launched Maison by Maddux Creative, a platform which, for the first time, brings some of their bespoke pieces they've worked on over the past 14 years to a wider market. "When you install these pieces in a project, someone always inevitably says, 'This is beautiful, where can I buy one?'" Jo tells me over a Zoom call, sat among the team in her studio. "Now, we have that platform."