SLOWE Living

SLOWE Living is an independent lifestyle and design company founded in London in 2019 that designs and manufactures made-to-order furniture in England through small-scale, fair production. It began during the pandemic, when founder Oliver Murphy, an industrial and graphic designer, went back to working with his hands to solve a problem he could not find an answer to: a durable, functional sofa bed for a small, multifunctional flat.

The pieces pair a twentieth-century aesthetic with contemporary function and are built to be repaired rather than thrown away, backed by a five-year warranty and a seven-day home trial. Murphy’s art direction background shapes the look, drawing on time living in Tokyo, Copenhagen and Switzerland and on records, subculture, 1970s Los Angeles modernism and 1990s Japanese industrial design.