The Kensington.

Flush handleless fronts, book-matched and sequenced grain from a single parcel of veneer, appliances behind matching panels, and runs that change material without changing plane. Sprayed in our own booth to a tolerance that shows if it is wrong..

How it is built

The same construction, whichever range

The range decides the door and the ornament. Everything behind it is built the same way, in the same building, by the same nine people — and it is built that way whether the kitchen is going to Suffolk or to Connecticut.

What it costs, and why → How a commission runs → How it reaches you →

Specification

Setting out	Drawn in CAD, then again at full size as a rod pinned above the bench. Machining is taken from the rod, not the screen.
Carcass	18mm birch-faced plywood (a shade under 3/4 inch), glued and screwed, 9mm backs (just under 3/8 inch) housed in rather than pinned on. Adjustable feet throughout.
Face frames	Solid timber, mortise and tenon, with scribed filler stiles where the joinery meets the building.
Drawer boxes	Solid European oak, 16mm (just over 5/8 inch) sides, through-dovetailed front and back by hand, waxed.
Runners	Full-extension soft-close, rated to 90lb.
Painted work	Four coats, brushed by hand in our own finishing room, with the final coat cut in on site after installation.
Installation	By the people who made it. Nothing is subcontracted and nothing arrives flat-packed.

Full-height appliance columns in veneer, a glazed wine cabinet set into the run — Appliances, behind matching panels

A drawer front with a slim recessed pull, the stone top above it — The drawer, open

The same range in a lighter setting, a pale island with stools and the sea beyond — The same range, differently set

The run from the corner, appliance columns and wine storage in the same veneer

The Kensington seen from the doorway, a sprayed and veneered run beside a stone-topped island, with glazing along the far wall — The Kensington

Veneer sequenced across two door fronts so the figure runs on through the joint — The grain, sequenced across the run

A walkthrough of The Kensington

Not the right one if the house is period. This is a modern kitchen and it does not pretend otherwise.

The working run under a stone top, with a back-painted glass backsplash carried behind the faucet

A sprayed vanity unit with a stone top, The Kensington range by Square & True

Made in this range

A kitchen we have built to this door

South Kensington, London · The KensingtonQueen’s Gate Place MewsA sprayed, handleless kitchen in a mews house, with a painted in-frame scullery behind it doing the work the front room is too smart to do.See the project →

All seven projects →

The other ranges

If this is not the one

The Suffolk — hand-painted in-frame English kitchen, built in Suffolk and installed in the United States

Hand-painted in-frameThe SuffolkA flat center panel, a plain stile and rail, a solid timber face frame, and paint.See the range →

The Essex — molded in-frame English kitchen with a hand-carved chimneypiece over the range

Molded in-frameThe EssexThe most decorated of the seven.See the range →

The Scandi — handleless character oak kitchen with matte black cabinetry, made in Suffolk

Handleless oak, solid timberThe ScandiFlat, finger-jointed fronts in character oak.See the range →

All seven ranges →

Every kitchen shown here is one we have made. The images are visualizations rather than photographs of our clients’ houses. They are built from our own workshop drawings and our own photographs of the work on site, and finished with AI, because our clients ask that their houses are not photographed or published. More on that.

Tell us about the room.

Where the house is, roughly when you would like to be cooking in it, and what you have in mind. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

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