KM WORKSHOPS LIMITED is a delivery-focused, design-led practice.
Our small, highly specialised team moves between independence and collaboration, navigating the practicalities of making spaces and objects. Holding creativity and practicality in balance, we deliver interior architecture and design projects, and create specialist bespoke furniture.
We approach each project with an open mind. Rather than imposing an in-house style, we relish supporting and amplifying others’ creative direction, bringing our experience to realise ideas in the best way possible.
Positioning ourselves as guardians, we guide ideas through real-world constraints, seeking the character of each brief and taking time to understand intent before assembling—or joining—the team that will bring it to life.
Alongside this, we keep close company with makers, suppliers and creatives. Through that network—and with our material fluency and love of making—we create specialist, sometimes unusual, one-off pieces—shaped with care, resolved in detail and made to endure.
Whether working with designers, architects or private clients, we approach every commission with a calm, disciplined rhythm, letting the marriage of creativity and process guide the work
KM WORKSHOPS LIMITED was founded in 2009 by Karl Mannerings, a London-based interior architect. Originally established to deliver Karl’s more “eccentric” and “less ordinary” interior architecture projects, the business has since evolved to encompass his passion for researching manufacturing techniques—both traditional and contemporary.
Raised in a family that encouraged creativity and inquisitiveness—and immersed in the world of fine joinery through the family business—Karl developed an intuitive understanding of how “things” are made and the built environment becomes part of our lives.
“Looking back, the appreciation for design and architecture instilled in me from childhood means I am simply the natural result of my upbringing and early life.”
After formal design training at Kingston University, Karl worked internationally, delivering projects across the globe with leading designers, international brands, and private clients. Now, working closely with a network of fellow creatives, technicians, skilled makers and artisan craftsmen, Karl delivers work that reflect both skill and passion.
“My interest in how and why things are made really drives the work. The ‘how’ comes from my upbringing—an appreciation of hand skills, a fascination with technology, and a deep respect for design movements. The ‘why,’ I believe, has developed over time into something softer and more poetic.”
