The Bert & May Kitchen

Yorkshire

This kitchen was made by deVOL for Lee Thornley, founder of the tile company Bert and May, and his partner, in a new extension to their Georgian house about three miles from York, a building of around 1820 that was once two cottages. deVOL files it as The Bert and May Kitchen, after the client's company, and says the couple wanted "LA-meets-Spain, which could have been a tall order given they are in Yorkshire". The tiles are the owner's own, handmade terracotta laid in herringbone on the floor, Hessian Bejmat zellige on the walls and Rio tile on the fireplace, under walls and ceiling in Little Greene Roman plaster. Thornley: "I was inspired by the laid-back yet vibrant atmosphere of Los Angeles and the rustic charm of Spain".

The island is deVOL's Haberdasher's Long Prep Table, more than three metres of solid oak on turned legs with eight glazed and eight closed drawers, a honed Carrara marble top and the range's aged copper end panels; deVOL admits its dimensions on paper are "ridiculously big, but once in the room it is completely at home and feels the ideal size." The cabinetry is Haberdasher's too, solid oak under a tinted oil with blackened brass and brass pivot hinges, and the light over the island is deVOL's Heirloom Gaselier.

deVOL

deVOL is a British kitchen furniture maker founded in 1989 by two Loughborough University design graduates, Philip deVries and Paul O'Leary, based at Cotes Mill in Leicestershire with showrooms in London, Bath, New York and Los Angeles, and now employing more than 400 people.

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Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.