Kim Roycroft
Designer and Maker of Fine Furniture

Kim's profile

As his reputation grew he found himself exhibiting at such venues as the Distinctive Homes Exhibition in Alexandra Palace, London, Powderham Castle in Cornwall and many others.

Kim came to Western Australia in 1990 and settled in the small timber town of Nannup. Here he found access to his own timber. Over the years he has built up a stock of fine jarrah, sheoak and marri. Timber that has been especially selected and milled for furniture making.

Now several years on, Kim is making his mark in Western Australia as a designer/maker of fine furniture with commissioned pieces being sold not only in WA but to the Eastern States, Japan and Singapore. He has taken on larger projects such as supplying furniture to the Colonial Motel in Margaret River and fitting out its "Margaret's Restaurant & Bar", the Council Chambers boardroom table at the Shire of Nannup and others.

A Kim Roycroft Design can easily be recognised as unique. Always perfectly proportioned, always professionally made. Hand finished to a real lustre, which does not hide, or detract from the natural beauty of wood.

His traditional style is simple, yet elegant. It lends itself as easily to a country house as to the stately elegance of a city mansion or even a large commercial project. The style reflects his great knowledge of timber, the way it behaves, the understanding that wood is a forever living thing. His furniture design takes into consideration the timber's natural beauty - his construction, its movement and force.

Kim's love affair with wood began in Ireland where he was born. On completion of his trade exams he left Ireland to work in London. There he had the privilege of working on some of the finest buildings in the world-renewing and replacing panelling and joinery in such classic buildings as the Bank of England in the old City of London. These fine old buildings gave him his traditional approach.