Patience & Gough exhibitions

With TABU, the Italian veneer house

The Koshi bar cabinet, in Milan

For our second Salone with TABU, the Italian veneer house whose veneers we use across our marquetry, we showed the Koshi edition of our Shokunin bar cabinet on their stand in Hall 22, beside the Ideas 4 Wood contest for young designers.

Koshi is a woven lattice of black, charcoal and pale veneers, with a copper overlay, finished with leather-bound copper handles. Inside, the bar is lit, with a porcelain cocktail worktop and racking for 30 bottles. Every surface was cut and laid by hand by the artisans of one of the Sultan of Oman’s respected furniture workshops, over several months.

Thank you to everyone who visited the stand. If you missed it, the cabinet can be seen by appointment, or made for you in your own veneers.

• StandHall 22, A18, with TABU
• ShownKoshi edition bar cabinet
• Veneersfrom TABU’s 555 colours

With Bert Frank

A red room, a bar and a chandelier

At Decorex 2025 we joined Bert Frank, the British lighting makers, in a room of deep red panelling and arches. The Koshi bar cabinet stood at the end of the enfilade, lit by a Bert Frank chandelier of alabaster globes, with their table and floor lamps throughout.

It was a chance to show how our furniture and their lighting work together in a finished room, which is how most of our clients first see a piece: not on a plinth, but in a space they can imagine living in.

• WithBert Frank lighting
• ShownKoshi bar cabinet
• Filmbelow, a walk through the room

At home with Bert Frank

The Panthera side table, in Clerkenwell

In 2025 the Panthera side table took up residence in Bert Frank’s Clerkenwell showroom, between a pair of armchairs and under their lamps, on a floor of old glass blocks.

The table is a cross of figured sycamore framed in pale burl, with a top of hand-laid marquetry and mother-of-pearl and a single red flower. It works as a side table or a bedside, and is available now.

• ShownPanthera side table
• WithBert Frank lighting
• Availablenow, ready to deliver

With TABU, for the first time

Shokunin goes to Milan

Our first Salone, on the stand of TABU, the veneer house that supplies much of our marquetry. We showed three pieces from the Shokunin collection: the Panthera tambour sideboard, the side table and the Totem plant stand.

The sideboard’s tambour doors are made of individually marquetried slats, so the pattern runs unbroken as they glide round to the back. Its handle is milled in-house from solid metal and acid-etched with a pair of tigers.

• WithTABU
• ShownSideboard, side table and Totem
• CollectionShokunin

The launch of Shokunin

Where it all began

We launched the Shokunin collection at Chelsea Harbour during London Design Week, in a stand we designed and built ourselves: a plastered arch lit from within, our monogram on the wall, and lengths of our fabrics hanging beside the furniture.

It was the first time the Panthera bar cabinet, the tambour sideboard and the side table were seen together, alongside our printed velvets and linens and the Circle dining chair upholstered in them.

• VenueDesign Centre, Chelsea Harbour
• LaunchedThe Shokunin collection
• Also shownOur fabrics, by the metre