Reeve & Co Interiors designs, makes and installs bespoke joinery, kitchens and fitted furniture for international clients — private residences across Europe and beyond, and marine joinery for yachts and superyachts — all handmade in our Suffolk, England workshop.
International Clients & Yacht Interiors
English bespoke joinery, designed and made in Suffolk, delivered and installed worldwide.
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Reeve & Co is a Suffolk workshop of cabinet makers, designers and fitters making bespoke joinery, kitchens and furniture for exceptional homes. Most of our work is in London, the Home Counties and East Anglia; a growing part of it is for clients whose homes — and boats — are somewhere else entirely. This page explains how we work internationally, what travels well, and what you can expect from an English workshop delivering abroad.
Distance changes the logistics, not the standard. Every commission, wherever it will live, is surveyed, drawn and agreed in detail before a single board is cut. Each piece is made by our cabinet makers in Suffolk, dry-fitted in the workshop so we know it goes together perfectly, then export-crated and shipped. Our own fitting team travels to install. Nothing is sub-let to a factory you have never met; the people who draw your joinery are in the same building as the people who make it.
We take on selected international commissions rather than chasing volume. That is deliberate. Recent work abroad includes joinery for a residence in Southampton, New York and for a château in the Loire Valley — projects that taught us more about crating, shipping and installing overseas than any brochure could. The work we want is the work that deserves a bench-made answer: a library in a Swiss chalet, a dressing room in a coastal villa, a panelled study in a Manhattan apartment, the saloon of a yacht in refit. If your project is of that kind, we would like to hear about it.
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International residences
Private homes in Europe and beyond
For homes outside the UK we make whole-house joinery packages, kitchens, libraries, panelling, wardrobes and fitted furniture — the same commissions we deliver for London and Home Counties houses, engineered to travel. We have delivered work to a residence in Southampton, New York and a château in the Loire Valley, and we work to your architect’s drawings or provide full in-house design, and we co-ordinate directly with your project manager, main contractor or family office so that decisions are made once, in writing, by the right people.
Climate matters more than most suppliers admit. A kitchen made for a centrally heated Alpine chalet, a humid coastal villa or an air-conditioned city apartment each needs different construction decisions: timber selection, movement allowances, finishes. Because we make rather than assemble, we engineer each piece for where it will actually live.
- Full survey, CAD drawings and written sign-off before manufacture
- Timbers and construction specified for the destination climate
- Export crating and insured international shipping, handled for you
- Our own fitters travel to site — no third-party installers
Yachts & superyachts
Marine joinery, built to a residential standard
The disciplines a yacht interior demands are the disciplines our workshop practises every day: exact tolerances, complex curved and shaped work, weight-conscious construction, book-matched veneers and hand-applied finishes that stand close inspection. A yacht saloon is, in joinery terms, a very fine panelled room that happens to move.
We should be straightforward: we are not a marine outfitter with a fleet of launches behind us. We are a bench workshop seeking our first yacht and superyacht commissions, working alongside naval architects, yacht designers, refit yards and owners’ teams. What we bring is cabinet-making of a standard usually reserved for the finest private houses — and the drawing discipline, programme reliability and single point of responsibility that trade clients tell us is rare.
The natural first commissions are self-contained: a saloon library or bar, a master cabin’s fitted furniture, a dining table and its surrounding cabinetry, replacement joinery in a refit. Each piece is drawn, made and finished in Suffolk, then delivered to the yard — or delivered and fitted by our own team, working to the yard’s programme.
How it works
A single point of responsibility, wherever the project is
Brief & survey
We review drawings, visit site or receive laser-survey data, and agree scope, programme and budget in writing before anything else happens.
Design & drawings
Full workshop drawings and 3D CAD for approval — every moulding, veneer and fitting resolved on paper, where changes are cheap.
Manufacture in Suffolk
Hand-made by our own cabinet makers in fine timbers and hand-applied finishes, and dry-fitted in the workshop before it ships.
Export & logistics
Museum-grade export crating, insured shipping and customs documentation handled for you, to home or yard.
Installation
Our own fitting team travels and installs to the same standard as our UK projects, coordinated with your other trades.
Aftercare
Finishing touch-ups, seasonal adjustment guidance and ongoing support, wherever the piece lives.
Who we work with
Architects, designers, yards and owners’ teams
Most of our international enquiries come through professionals: architects and interior designers with an overseas project on the board, project managers running a build remotely, family offices co-ordinating several properties, and — on the marine side — naval architects, yacht designers and refit yards. We are used to being one trade among many on complex, high-value projects, and to being judged on drawings, samples and programme discipline before anyone sees a finished piece.
You deal with the people who actually make your joinery. There are no agents and no middlemen, and the answer you get on Tuesday is the same answer you get on Friday. For private clients approaching us directly, we are happy to work alongside your existing team or recommend the professionals a project needs.
Based at our workshop in Mickfield, Suffolk, we are an hour from London by rail and thirty minutes from Ipswich. For overseas projects we travel to survey and to install; between those visits, drawings, samples and finish approvals move by courier and video call, which in practice is how most of our UK clients prefer to work too.
Materials & making
Made properly, to travel well
We work in fine hardwoods and veneers — oak, walnut, sycamore, tulipwood and others — selected and matched for grain so a run of cabinetry reads as one piece. Painted work is hand-finished in our own spray booth. For marine and high-humidity destinations we specify stable constructions, appropriate substrates and finishes chosen for the conditions, and we are candid when a detail that photographs beautifully will not survive its destination. Brassware, leather, stone, glass and metalwork are sourced from the same British suppliers we use on our finest residential commissions.
Weight, access and installation order are designed in from the first drawing: pieces are built to break down into liftable, craneable sections that pass through the openings that actually exist — a yacht companionway, a chalet staircase, a Manhattan service lift — and go back together on site without visible fixings.
Questions we are asked
International & yacht joinery FAQs
Do you have yacht projects we can see?
Not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. We are actively seeking our first marine commissions. What we can show you is a workshop full of residential joinery built to the tolerances and finish a yacht interior demands, and we would welcome the chance to make a sample piece to your specification.
Which countries do you work in?
We have delivered joinery to the United States — a residence in Southampton, New York — and to France, for a château in the Loire Valley, and we consider projects across Europe and further afield case by case. The practical questions are access, programme and scale — a single room travels easily; a whole-house package needs proper planning. We will give you an honest view at first conversation.
How does surveying work for an overseas property?
Either we travel to survey, or we work from your architect’s laser survey and drawings with a verification visit before manufacture. For refit work we can work from the yard’s scan data.
Who handles shipping and customs?
We do. Export crating, insurance, freight and documentation are arranged by us and priced within the project, so there is one contract and one point of responsibility.
Do your own fitters really travel?
Yes. The team that installs in Chelsea is the team that installs abroad. Where local trades are needed — electrics, stone, glazing — we co-ordinate with your contractor.
What does an international commission cost?
Made-to-order joinery is priced from drawings, not a rate card. As a guide, our residential commissions range from around £5,000 for a single fine piece to £600,000 for whole-house packages; shipping and installation abroad are quoted transparently on top. Send us drawings and we will respond with a considered budget.
The standard we work to
Marine and international joinery, visualised
Concept visualisations of the joinery our Suffolk workshop produces for yachts, chalets, apartments and coastal homes.
Discuss an international or yacht project
Telephone +44 (0)1449 710 500 or email sales@reeveandco.com. Send us your drawings, GA plans or a simple description of what you have in mind, and we will come back with an honest view on approach, programme and budget.
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