Located in the underbelly of Trellick Tower, Goldfinger Factory combines a furniture showroom and community café on one floor with a woodworking workshop and teaching academy underneath.

Having opened its doors in 2014, this social enterprise has spent the past four years empowering the community through craftsmanship and design. Providing a platform for local artisans and training people in craft skills, Goldfinger Factory is a creative hub of makers.

Architect Ernö Goldfinger, was in the words of the song, the man with the Midas touch, an ambition the Factory can closely identify with in their mission to turn ‘Waste into Gold’.

London is teeming with craftspeople whose potential is wasted because they are unable to use their skills to self-support. By providing them with a platform to grow, Goldfinger Factory turns this wasted human potential into gold. What’s more they transform reclaimed materials into exquisite furniture and interiors.

Few people know the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s most notorious criminal was the visionary architect whose dream of utopia gave us Trellick Tower, a building that went from almost being torn down to gaining its status as Grade II listed and one of London’s most striking icons.

Trellick Tower is London’s most iconic Modernist apartment block. Designed by the architect Ernö Goldfinger, Trellick Tower has been Grade II* listed in recognition of its architectural importance.

Begun in the late 1960s, towards the end of the vogue for high-rise social housing, it was conceived by its architect along principles that approached the utopian. A disciple of the Modernist architects Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, Goldfinger (whose name Ian Fleming uncharitably stole after a dispute over the destruction of some Victorian housing) passionately believed in the Corbusian concept of “streets in the sky”, the idea that the social interactions of ground-level communities could be transferred into space-saving vertical formations. His buildings aimed to accommodate large numbers of people without loss of amenity.

By the time that the Trellick was built though, public opinion was beginning to turn against the postwar towers. It became known in the media as the 'Tower of Terror'.

In 1983, after years as an acknowledged trouble-spot, the council installed a concierge at the bottom of the Trellick and the slow recovery of its reputation began.

Today, in a Britain where nearly 40,000 people belong to the Brutalism Appreciation Society and tours of the Trellick are avidly subscribed, the intricacies of Goldfinger's vision are once again appreciated.

Its concrete outline, an icon of Brutalist style, has appeared in music videos for Blur, Tricky and Depeche Mode.

Thinly disguised as Windsor House, “the lone tower block at the end of Golborne Road”, it is where the darts-playing, wifebeating criminal Keith Talent lives in Martin Amis’s novel London Fields (1989).

Most famously, perhaps, it was the inspiration for High-Rise, the 1975 novel by JG Ballard whose film adaptation, directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston, came out in 2016.