Our Work
Furniture programmes, from product to production.
Furniship's work can begin from a customer's design, an earlier-stage product requirement, or a Furniship-developed product — and continue through the manufacturing programme as required.
What follows is how that work is shaped. Named programmes are not published here, and none is implied.
01Starting points
Three ways a programme begins.
Every Furniship programme starts from one of three things the buyer already has. Which one it is shapes the first weeks of work, and very little after that.
Your design
OEM
A drawing, a CAD file, a specification or a reference sample already exists. The work is engineering it for production, proving it in a physical sample, and making it repeatedly to the approved reference.
Your idea
Custom
The product is not resolved yet — a sketch, a reference piece, a gap in an assortment, a requirement written in words rather than dimensions. The development work is part of the programme rather than something that has to happen before it.
Our design
Private label · ODM
The starting point is a product Furniship has already developed, adapted to the buyer's materials, dimensions, finishes, branding and packaging.
The starting point describes what a programme began from. It does not describe how far the product can move afterwards.
02The work
What the work involves.
Not every programme uses every stage, and a programme that skips one is not an incomplete programme. This is the scope a Furniship programme can draw on.
Product development
Resolving what the product is, in enough detail to be quoted, sampled and made.
Physical samples
The prototype and sample work that settles a product, and the approval production is then held to.
Production route
Owned manufacturing or a partner factory, chosen against the product, construction, volume and specification.
Manufacturing
Production against the approved reference.
Quality control
Materials, in-line production, finished product, packaging and pre-shipment inspection.
Packing and shipment
Packaging built for the product and the route it travels, and the documentation that goes with it.
03Evidence
What a published programme will show.
When a programme is documented on this page, it will be a real one, published with the customer's agreement, and it will show the stages that genuinely belonged to it.
- Where the programme started, and what the buyer brought to it.
- What had to be developed or resolved before it could be quoted.
- The physical sample work, and what changed between rounds where that applied.
- How the production route was chosen for that product.
- What was inspected, against which references.
- How it was packed, and what the packing had to survive.
Not every programme contains every one of those, and a documented one will say which it contained rather than implying the full set.
Until a programme can be shown with real photography and a customer's agreement, nothing is shown here. A portfolio of unnamed projects is not evidence, and neither is a grid of empty cards.
04Instead
In the meantime.
What the manufacturing pages describe is not a portfolio, and it is more useful than one. Each states what is made, how a programme runs, what is agreed at each point and what Furniship takes responsibility for.
Those pages are written to be held to. A buyer assessing whether Furniship can run their programme will learn more from the one that matches their category than from a project in somebody else's.
05Next
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