Furl: Space-saving furniture, made in the UK

David founded Furl in 2007 after struggling to find the type and quality of storage beds in the UK that he could find easily in Spanish supermarkets, where he’d recently bought a holiday home.

As a natural problem-solver and entrepreneur, David found a high-quality mechanism from an Italian manufacturer. He had five frames shipped to his home in Nottinghamshire. David then found fabrics in John Lewis and made his first storage bed.

Before long, he was selling them faster than he could make them personally, and so Furl (initially the Storage Bed Company), with 3 staff, was founded as a space-saving furniture brand. Now, Furl employs over 30 staff, many of whom have been with the company for years, and the plan is to grow the workforce to over 50.