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Every piece starts with a reason for making it.
A particular space, a practical need, an interesting piece of timber or simply an idea worth exploring.
Here you’ll find a selection of furniture, smaller objects and reclaimed pieces designed and made by VetaFuturo in Maidstone, Kent.
FURNITURE
The Workshop Table
This table began with a practical problem: I needed a large, solid working surface in the kitchen to complement the central island, but I also needed to be able to move it when the space changed.
The solution was a mobile table designed to work at two different heights. Raised, it becomes a standing additional surface at exactly island height. Lowered, it works as a conventional table where people can sit comfortably around it. Heavy-duty castors allow the whole piece to move when the family needs change.
Built around four independent leg structures and a laminated hardwood top, the table started as a purely functional project. But the mechanism and construction gradually became part of the design itself — a piece made to adapt to how it is actually being used.
OBJECTS
The Window Shelf
This shelf began with a leftover piece of the same kitchen worktop used to build the mobile workshop table. Rather than discard it, I wanted to find a useful place for it in the house.
The shape came directly from the space. The shelf needed to follow the window sill, rise above an existing electrical socket and then continue along the wall. The change in level became part of the design rather than something to work around.
A small gap was also built into the upper section to allow charging cables to pass discreetly behind the shelf, avoiding cables running across the wall towards the kitchen island.
What began as a leftover piece of timber became a shelf designed specifically around the room — the material, the problem and the space shaping the final form.
RECLAIMED
From parquet to something new
This wood was once part of a parquet floor in an old house in Maidstone. During a renovation, the flooring was being removed and was going to be thrown away. I asked if I could keep it, packed the pieces into bags and brought them home.
For a long time, the wood simply waited. The back of every piece was still covered in the old bitumen adhesive used to fix the parquet to the floor, making it difficult to clean and work with.
Rather than discard it, I started exploring how the timber could be recovered. Eventually, I decided to cut away the contaminated surface and work with the sound wood underneath.
The bowl is one of the first pieces to come from that reclaimed parquet — wood that had already served one purpose, now beginning another.
OTHER PROJECTS
Other pieces made over the years — often starting with reclaimed timber, leftover materials or simply a need for something that didn't already exist.
Reclaimed Sliding Doors
Reclaimed timber transformed into sliding doors, keeping the marks, variations and character of the original wood.
Reclaimed timber transformed into sliding doors, keeping the marks, variations and character of the original wood.
Bathroom Storage
Storage built around the room using reclaimed pallet timber — turning an awkward space into something practical.
Storage built around the room using reclaimed pallet timber — turning an awkward space into something practical.
HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND?
HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND?
Whether it's a piece of furniture, something for your home, or an idea involving wood that doesn't quite fit into a category, I'd be happy to hear about it.
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