City Living were founded on designing and manufacturing one off furniture, but they have broadened to include joinery services presenting clients with the option of creating cabinets specific to their needs.
Combining the timeless integrity of traditional master craftsmanship with the practicality of today’s cutting edge technology from exclusive one off original master pieces to cost effective multi-unit commercial projects, City Living provide private, corporate clients and interior design professionals with original and practical design and production solutions.
City Living have good knowledge and experience in working with broad range of materials and techniques:
Timber furniture:
- Traditional work with solid timbers
- Veneer: natural and man-made, veneer boards, custom pressing, veneer laid by hand including marquetry.
- Mixed technique solid timber with veneers
- Laminating - curved work
- Woodcarving
- Wood-turning
- Timber-metal construction
Metal furniture:
- Wrought iron: Traditionally forged
- Stainless Steel
- Mild Steel
- Laser cutting
- Water jet cutting
- Metal rolling (including high polished stainless steel finish nº8)
- Metal bending
- Metal cast: cast iron, bronze, aluminium, stainless steel, etc.
- Metal welding: MIG, TIG
- Sheet metal works
- Metal spinning
- Metal turning
- Metal stamping
Finishes and materials:
- Stains on timber, veneers and MDF
- Lacquers: single, two pack, polyester
- French polish (shellac)
- Paint satin or gloss oven baked: solid colour
- Hand painted finishes: screen-printing, stencil, etc.
- Distressed: Timbers, paints, metals
- Decorative metal coating (on timber or metal)
- Gilding
- Laminates
- Stone: Natural and man-made
- Glass bending: Customised shapes
- Resins and fibreglass
- Leather inlaying and gold tooling
- Electroplating: Chrome, nickel, brass, gold, etc.
- Galvanising: Zinc, etc.
- Anodising
- Metal polishing
- Powder coating