What a pleasure it is to know that traditional craftsmanship and profitability are not mutually exclusive.
I used to be a little bit cynical about this. I thought that computer-aided design had taken over. Productivity
and affordability had beaten hand-made, non-mechanised quality into submission.
Take architectural mouldings, cornices and plaster-works for example. It’s just the sort of craft that we marvel at in the stately homes and monuments of old – mourning its demise and absence today.
‘You could never build that now’ . . . ‘too expensive’ . . . ‘skills don’t exist anymore’ etc. etc.

So nice then to be shooting for a company that proves me wrong. ‘Stevensons of Norwich’ use exactly those hand-made, delicate skills that I often feared lost.
Their perfectionism and creativity doesn’t get in the way of productivity – and surprise surprise – they are world renowned in their field.

Brilliant.