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Made to your dimensions
Every sofa, headboard or banquette is drawn to your room — not to a stock pattern. Send a sketch or a floorplan and we will work to it.
Atelier · Established 1992
Furniture cut, stitched and finished to your exact brief.
For three decades we have built upholstered pieces by hand in our Shoreditch workshop — kiln-dried frames, hand-tied springs, the fabric you choose down to the last metre. One sofa or one hundred, the standard never moves.
34 years
One workshop · One standard
Why people choose Movarix
A workshop, not a warehouse.
Every piece leaving our doors has been touched by the same five hands that have been here for over a decade. The result: pieces that age slowly, stitches that hold, and frames that outlive sofa cushions twice over.
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No minimum order
One armchair for a guest bedroom, fifteen sofas for a hotel — the production line treats both with equal patience and the same materials.
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Open workshop
Visit your piece at any stage. We will pour the tea while you check the frame, the cushions and the upholstery before it is finished.
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Honest materials
Beech and birch frames, jute webbing, eight-way hand-tied springs, fibre-wrapped foam from Vitafoam. No MDF, no staples in the seat deck.
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Two hundred fabrics
Linwood, Romo, Designers Guild, Kvadrat — plus our small in-house edit of Yorkshire wools. Bring your own COM and we will work with it.
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Lifetime frame guarantee
If a Movarix frame ever fails under domestic use, we replace it. The cushions and fabric are repairable in our workshop for as long as you own the piece.
Selected pieces
The current collections.
Six families to start a conversation with — every piece is then redrawn to your dimensions, fabric and finish.
Sofas
The Whitchurch
Armchairs
The Holloway
Modular
The Penham
Bedroom
The Marylebone
Dining
The Spitalfield
Workspace
The Southwark
From sketch to delivery
Eight to fourteen weeks, kept honest.
A bespoke piece is built four times before it leaves the workshop — once on paper, once in frame, once in calico, and once in the fabric you have chosen.
Brief
Visit the showroom, send measurements, or arrange a home consultation across Greater London.
Drawings
You receive scaled elevations and a fabric schedule before any timber is cut. Two free revisions are included.
Build
Frame, springs, fillings and a calico mock-up. You are welcome in the workshop at any point of the build.
Deliver
Two-person white glove delivery in mainland UK. Doorways measured before despatch — every time.
In the workshop
Five upholsterers, one floor, no shortcuts.
The Movarix bench is small on purpose. Twelve frames a week, no more — because the difference between a sofa that lasts thirty years and one that sags after five is patience, and you cannot subcontract patience.
- Frames in kiln-dried beech and birch ply, glued and dowelled — never stapled.
- Eight-way hand-tied springs as standard on every seat over 90 cm wide.
- Cushions made from fibre-wrapped foam, with feather-down upgrades available.
- Final fabric and trim hand-finished, photographed and signed off before despatch.
Voices from clients
Some words from rooms we have furnished.
We sent Movarix a Pinterest board and a bay window measurement. Twelve weeks later the corner sofa fitted to the millimetre, and the linen has cleaned up beautifully after two children and a labrador.
For the lobby refit at our Margate hotel we needed thirty banquettes, all with different end caps, all in the same wool boucle. Movarix delivered on the day they promised. That is rarer than the workmanship itself.
I specified an awkward curved banquette for a private dining room and they redrew it twice without complaint. The hand-tied seats are still firm three years on, and the brass-tack detail has aged exactly the way they said it would.
Useful to know
Frequently asked questions.
How long does a bespoke sofa take to build?
Most sofas take eight to ten weeks from sign-off; complex modular pieces or large hospitality orders run to twelve or fourteen weeks. We share a written schedule before deposit and update you weekly.
Can I supply my own fabric?
Yes — customer-own-material (COM) is straightforward. We will tell you exact metreage on the drawings stage so you order what you need. Lead times start when fabric arrives at the workshop.
Do you deliver outside London?
We deliver across mainland UK with our own two-person crew. International freight is arranged on request — most pieces are crated for sea or air, and we have shipped to clients in Dublin, Geneva, New York and Singapore.
What about repairs and re-upholstery later on?
Any Movarix piece can be returned to the workshop for re-spring, re-stuff or full re-upholstery. We keep a record of every build, including frame drawings and fabric specs, so a piece bought in 1998 can be refreshed today without guesswork.
Is there a minimum order?
None at all. A single armchair is welcomed with the same paperwork and the same standards as a thirty-piece hotel order.
How is payment structured?
Half on sign-off of the drawings, the balance on delivery. UK card payments and bank transfer are accepted. Trade clients can apply for thirty-day terms after a first completed project.
A piece you have been carrying around in your head.
Show us a sketch, a room, or just a feeling. We will turn it into drawings within a fortnight, with no obligation.
Begin a brief