FOODBENCH

FOODBENCH

Kitchen Islands With Soul
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Provenance

A hundred years
in a Kentucky fence line.

Ranch and railway fencing, stood in open prairie weather for a century. Reclaimed, kiln-dried and shipped to our Twickenham workshop, every crack and knot intact.

The Making

Assembled by hand.
Engineered underneath.

Hand-limed oak over a precision 19mm Egger carcass. Dovetail-jointed drawers on soft-close runners. German function, heritage timber.

Materiality

Stone meets story.

Bespoke worktops in Carrara marble, granite, quartz, porcelain or patinated metal, cut and fitted by specialist fabricators.

The Food Bench

One island.
Three sizes.
Yours in 6–8 weeks.

From £7,680 +VAT, excluding worktop
Explore the range
The Range

Three footprints.
One obsession.

Every Food Bench is built to order from the same reclaimed Kentucky oak, sized to the room it will anchor. Prices exclude VAT and the worktop. Full dimensions and the current price list on request.

FB1
Large · Open-plan kitchens

The full-scale centrepiece. Seats the whole dinner party while the cook holds court.

£11,060 +VAT
FB2
Medium · The classic island

Proportioned for the standard family kitchen. Storage below, gathering above.

£10,800 +VAT
FB3
Small · Compact & urban

High spatial efficiency for tighter rooms. Every drawer still dovetailed, every plank still a century old.

£7,680 +VAT
Worktops

Choose the stone.
The oak is settled.

Food Bench with dark honed granite worktop Food Bench with Carrara marble worktop Food Bench with brushed zinc worktop Food Bench with porcelain worktop
The Story

Think you know kitchen islands?
Think again.

Reclaimed oak grain meeting a stone worktop, up close

The Food Bench began in an artisan bakery on the south coast: a lightbulb moment for designer Ian Cross, three decades deep in interior architecture and the kitchens of west London.

What if the warmth of a freestanding, story-filled piece could meet the discipline of handleless German joinery? What if a kitchen could be transformed by one object, without the disruption, lead time and cost of a full refit?

The answer is built from reclaimed white oak out of Kentucky ranch and railway fencing, kiln-dried, milled, hand-limed and sealed in our Twickenham workshop. Delivered by a two-man team, assembled in about two hours, topped in the stone of your choosing.

No two planks match. That is the point.

Commissioning

From conversation
to centrepiece.

I

Consultation

Size, timber tone and worktop chosen against your room. By phone, or at the Twickenham studio.

II

The Build

Six to eight weeks of making. Reclaimed oak, dovetail drawers, your stone cut to fit.

III

White-Glove Install

Two-man delivery, assembled in around two hours. Worktop fitted by specialists.

IV

Decades of Dinners

Sealed for real kitchen life. Built from timber that has already survived a century outdoors.

Begin

Talk to the maker.

01932 584940
FoodBench at Adaptations
80 Crown Road, Twickenham TW1 3ER
ian@adaptations.uk.com
Bespoke lead time 6–8 weeks · Price list on request