Goldfinger is an award-winning social enterprise, based at the foot of Trellick Tower, that crafts quality bespoke furniture from reclaimed and sustainable materials. Every penny of their profits supports their social impact.

Since its launch, Goldfinger has partnered with brands such as Tom Dixon, Arup, John Lewis and Whistles, as well as independent brands and artists who share their ethos.

Through the Goldfinger Academy, Goldfinger offers courses in sustainable woodworking and craft, and equips young learners to be the sustainably-minded designers of their future. This includes public workshops, with spaces offered free-of-charge to local residents on low-income, and an apprenticeship programme for NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training).

Since 2015, Goldfinger has supported its community through it’s free monthly community meal cooked from surplus ingredients, the People’s Kitchen, now running in its post-Covid iteration, People’s Kitchen: To Your Door.

The art of joinery happens in Goldfinger’s North Kensington
workshop. They design and craft bespoke furniture and
objects for homes and businesses, such as hotels, cafes,
shops and offices. Many of their designs are also available in their online shop.

Everything they make is expertly crafted from rescued or
sustainably-sourced materials, by their team of in-house
artisans and trainees. So far, they have rescued 398 tonnes
of material from landfill and crafted it into something new.
Goldfinger save emissions and respect the environment in
all their choices, minimising waste, crafting beautiful objects
from off-cuts, and working with suppliers and partners who
share their commitment to sustainability.

Clients include John Lewis, Gail’s Bakery, Tom Dixon, Whistles, Leon and Inhabit Hotels.

We sell outstanding sustainable furniture and lifestyle products through our online store and Golborne Road shop. This includes products made by Goldfinger artisans, as well as independent brands who share our values of good design, sustainability and social responsibility.

We carefully source all of our packaging solutions from recycled or biodegradable materials.

The Goldfinger Academy equips young learners to become the sustainably-minded designers of the future. We work with schools to introduce the wonderful world of craftmanship and sustainable design to children across London, opening the door for them to consider furniture making and joinery as a career. We also offer corporate away-days that enhance wellbeing and celebrate the joys of making, as well as public craft workshops.

Free spaces are available for local residents who are facing financial hardship.

Since 2015, we have been sitting down with our local
community once a month at People’s Kitchen, where we
share a delicious meal cooked up from surplus ingredients.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, we transformed our monthly community feast into a doorstep delivery of delicious hot meals as well as chats for vulnerable residents in our area. People’s Kitchen: To Your Door is a team effort by our in-house Sicilian café Panella, our neighbours Laylow and a dedicated team of Goldfinger volunteers. We’ve delivered over 4600 restaurant worthy meals so far, and counting.

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.