ABOUT
Made by Hand
Since 1987.
Since 1987.
A family workshop in Bermondsey, fourteen makers, one way of working. We design, build and fit everything ourselves, and we have never wanted to be bigger than a room where everyone knows every job.
1987
FOUNDED
14
MAKERS
600+
ROOMS FITTED
2
GENERATIONS
We make fewer rooms than we could, so that every one is made the way we would want it in our own house.
Loranzi began in 1987 as a two-bench workshop making kitchens for neighbours. The work got bigger, the method did not. A project still starts with a visit and a hand drawing, timber is still bought as whole logs and dried for years before it is cut, and the person who makes a piece is still the person who fits it.
That is slower and more expensive than the alternative. It is also why a kitchen we fitted in 1996 is still in use, and why we can guarantee our work for as long as the client owns it.
THE WORKSHOP
Three rooms, one roof.
14 Tanner Street has been home since 2008. Visitors are welcome by appointment; the showroom is at the front, the benches behind it.
TIMBER STORE
Boards are bought as whole logs and left to dry for two to four years before they are touched.
BENCH ROOM
Eight benches, hand tools and three machines. Joints are cut by the person who will fit them.
FINISHING ROOM
Oils and waxes applied by hand, three coats, cut back between each. Nothing is sprayed.
HISTORY
Thirty-eight years, five dates.
The rest is rooms, and most of those are still in use.
1987
Founded
Tomas Loranzi opens a two-bench workshop under a railway arch in Bermondsey, making kitchens for neighbours.
1996
First hotel
A bar for a Covent Garden hotel. The brass rail from that job is still in the showroom, dark where it was held.
2008
Tanner Street
The workshop moves to its current home: a timber store, a bench room and a finishing room under one roof.
2015
Second generation
Elena Loranzi takes over the drawing office. Every project since has started with a hand sketch.
2024
Fourteen makers
The largest the workshop has been, and the size we intend to stay.
THE TEAM
Fourteen makers.
Six you will meet.
Six you will meet.
Portrait
Elena Loranzi
DIRECTOR, DESIGNSINCE 2009
Portrait
Tomas Loranzi
FOUNDER, WORKSHOPSINCE 1987
Portrait
Marcus Hale
HEAD OF BENCHSINCE 2003
Portrait
Priya Natarajan
FINISHINGSINCE 2016
Portrait
Owen Reid
INSTALLATION LEADSINCE 2011
Portrait
Sofia Brandt
DRAWING OFFICESINCE 2019
METHOD
From First Sketch
to Final Fitting.
to Final Fitting.
01
Consultation
A site visit and conversation about how the space will be lived in.
02
Design
Hand drawings and 3D studies, refined with you until every line is right.
03
Workshop
Boards selected from a single tree, cut, joined and finished by hand.
04
Installation
Fitted by the makers themselves, scribed to the walls of your home.
VISIT
Come and see the benches.
The showroom and workshop are open by appointment, Monday to Friday. Most first conversations happen here.
LORANZI
PREMIUM CABINETRY & MILLWORK
Workshop & showroom
14 Tanner Street, London SE1 3LE
By appointment
14 Tanner Street, London SE1 3LE
By appointment