Unto This Last

Terrible customer service. No assistance what-​so-​ever.

An interesting product let down by utterly woeful, disinterested customer service. Ironic that such a high-​tech production process is served by such hapless and amateurish personnel! I have waited weeks for these people to confirm that they could carry out a modification to one of their designs. Weeks of ringing, empty promises of call-​backs, stalling tactics, conflicting information, the list goes on. When I finally got to speak to the owner after leaving countless messages requesting him to call me back, he turned out to just as unprofessional as his team but with considerable rudeness on top! Avoid at all costs. Poor John Ruskin that he should be honoured by such shabbiness!

Wow, what a shop. Just moved into a bigger house and needed some cool retro furniture and UTL really hit the spot.
All the furniture is made by them, it looks great, seems robust and can be delivered to your house by friendly and helpful people who are determined not to be put off by difficulties — snow covered steps with a dresser? No problem!
I really like the bespoke nature of the place and the fact that it doesn’t appear in every other house in the city. I love the fact they use ply, they cut cool curves and you can’t see metal on the pieces.
Think of it as usable and useful art.
Can’t recommend them highly enough — awesome!

I have really fallen for this shop. This concept is made to success. Simple handmade wooden furniture and smaller items for home deco, with affordable prices. I took my mum also there and the same thing happened to her.
It is the idea less is more, and functional design. And as mentioned already, the prices keep stunning me. It is also a feel good factor that you are getting your furniture’s from people with faces and supporting a independent shop. I am never going to IKEA again.

Unto This Last is a small furniture and home accessories shop right at the top of Brick Lane, and easily missed. Their philosophy is very interesting, as they do every part of the production process on site, from design (in most cases) to manufacture to distribution. It is a very relevant system that allows fast turnaround times and flexibility of dimensions in a contemporary society that demands customisation wherever it can — not to mention that this condensation of process keeps prices to a minimum.
Almost everything is digitally routed from birch plywood and merely slotted together, which has its obvious benefits but is definitely limiting to the design process. Having visited the shop over the last few years it seems that it might be time for them to move on — whilst I’m impressed with their aspirations I can’t help feeling that despite their huge catalogue a lot of their stuff does look a bit weighty and dated. Still, it’s clearly as popular as ever so what do I know, and it’s certainly worth visiting anyway — especially as you can see the things being produced at the back of the shop.

I like this furniture a lot. Technology and design come together to create individual and good looking pieces They make organically shaped chairs and stools, curvaceous coffee tables and interesting shelving. It looks like layers of thin ply are compressed together and then bent.
Products are made in the workshop on the premise. They have a machine called a digital router which means that can mass produce their furniture which makes it affordable.
Now I just need the space.

If only I could afford to deck out my living room with some of the fabulous designs from Unto this Last. I’m more of an antiques girl really, but I wouldn’t say no to a curved cell shelf, or a ‘nesting cube’ coffee table.
These unique, ikea-​esque designs, aren’t ridiculously overpriced as you might expect, a small coffee table would set you back about £100. They also have sculptural lampshade designs, perfect for adults & children alike.

Unto This Last is a gorgeous furniture store/​workshop just near Columbia Road with a founding philosophy of affordable, contemporary design executed using cutting edge digital practices in a softly modernist style.
A light, airy and beautifully spacious shop, Unto This Last specialises in unique furniture at almost Ikea prices with a fabulous range of CD racks and other storage solutions, desks and tables, alongside smaller pieces such as decorative animal shapes for children and a fabulous selection of light shades.

This is a unique furniture shop in the heart of Brick Lane, where you can watch your next dining table being cut out on a state of the art computer controlled machine.
They sell funky chairs, dining tables, storage solutions and range of home accessories. My favourite item is the Spline Chair!