Imperfect Interiors X Pilgrim: A Collaboration in Craft
Some collaborations arrive quickly. Others take their time, evolving slowly, changing slightly with each conversation until they begin to feel inevitable. This has been one of those.
Beth Dadswell, founder of award-winning interior design studio Imperfect Interiors, and I first met when she commissioned Pilgrim House to make two bespoke wardrobes for a client renovation.
It was a straightforward project, but from the outset there was a shared understanding around restraint, quality, and the value of doing things properly, even when much of the work is hidden from view. About making pieces, and creating homes, designed to last.
Not long after that first delivery, it became clear there was scope to work more closely. Not to rush, but to think carefully about what might genuinely be useful. To design from the ground up. To make fewer things, better.
Beth brings years of experience working across different homes of different eras. I bring the making, the slow translation of ideas into furniture that can live in a space for a long time. Between us, a collaboration began to take shape.
We spent almost a year designing together. Prototypes were made and remade. Proportions adjusted by small degrees. Details refined, then refined again. Colours were tested, set aside and returned to until they felt settled. Nothing was hurried. Everything allowed to arrive at its own pace.
The result is the Imperfect Interiors X Pilgrim collection. A considered range of furniture, accompanied by our first paint collection.
The furniture leads the conversation. It draws on traditional and historic forms with perennial familiarity, refined through a restrained approach to proportion and detail. These are pieces intended to sit comfortably within a home rather than announce themselves.
There are four core forms, each available in three styles, with further scope for customisation. A tall cupboard, adaptable as a wardrobe, larder, linen or media cupboard, sits alongside a console and writing desk, bookshelves and mirrors. Each piece is hand-made to order in our Sussex workshop, using traditional techniques and sustainably sourced, high-quality materials. All are hand-painted and available in any combination of colours from the collection, or in customer-specified shades.
While the collection pieces are semi-bespoke, fully bespoke work remains very much part of the conversation, using these designs as a basis to build upon. Both routes allow each piece to respond to the home it will live in.
They are designed to wear in, not out. To settle into daily use. To hold the marks of living.
Alongside the furniture sits our inaugural paint collection.
Over a decade ago, Beth moved from a career in fashion styling into interior design. Those years taught her one thing above all else: the quickest and most transformative way to change a home is with colour.
“The right shades can transform not just a room, but the way you feel in it, even how and when you use it.”
Throughout her work, Beth found herself returning to a very specific group of colours, shades that behaved well across different styles and periods of houses, in changing light, and in homes across the UK and beyond. Neutral tones that lift darker rooms. Deeper colours that bring atmosphere to brighter spaces. Dependable, timeless shades that allow a home to feel cohesive rather than curated room by room.
The Perfect Nine is the result of that long process of trial and refinement, a smaller, designer-led palette where each colour has earned its place. There is no need for mixing brands or endless sampling; it is a collection intended to work confidently from top to bottom of a home.
The paints are made exclusively for us by Fenwick & Tilbrook, a family-owned paint maker based in Norfolk, producing pigment-rich finishes from high-quality natural materials in small, sustainable batches.
This collection is not about chasing trends. It is about creating furniture and colours with longevity, pieces and shades that sit comfortably together, and within the spaces you actually live in.
Some ideas begin as sketches. Others begin in conversation. The best ones grow slowly, shaped by use, by light, and by the realities of people’s homes.
This has been one of those ideas.
A collection that brings together making and interior understanding. Objects and finishes intended to support one another.
Things that feel settled from the beginning, and better with time. Timeless, versatile and full of character, with the kind of craftsmanship that feels rare today.
Discover the collection.
