Our handles are a good quality material – often in brass and other metals. We have hundreds of them in our Kensal Green warehouse and we invite rummaging.

Sometimes Retrouvius are offered a unique batch of material and we have to think laterally about its reuse. Such was the case with four pallets of redundant Victorian art folios from a…

Retrouvius were contacted last week by a commercial upholstery company who were downsizing storage because of the “casual dining crisis” – (recent closures of several high profiles chain restaurants). A small mountain…

Salvaged from an array of wonderful and inspiring museums these traditional pieces became redundant as archival techniques modernised.

Doors are one of the most commonly reused architectural salvage components.

Glazed copperlight doors are clever way to give the option of closing off and breaking up a space.

Previously used for storing maturing cheeses, these pine boards have a visually soft and tactile chalky finish that we love.

RETROUVIUS has just saved many worn and patinated leather fronted panels. Once forming shelves in a prominent and famous London library the tactile leather surfaces are highly distressed and torn in places…