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Richard
Senior Showroom Manager with 32 years of service at Gardiner Haskins Interiors, including over 25 years leading the team. His experience in design and interiors helps ensure every customer benefits from knowledgeable guidance and a smooth, well-managed journey.
Alec
Senior Kitchen Designer with over 25 years’ experience at Gardiner Haskins Interiors, creating bespoke kitchens. Renowned for anticipating clients’ needs before they’re expressed, paired with a meticulous eye for detail and a commitment to exceptional design.
Olga
Kitchen, Bathroom and Interior designer and a graduate of UWE Bristol, with a passion for creating functional, thoughtful spaces. With five years at the company, Olga brings a keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering designs that balance practicality with style.
Ben
Kitchen and Bedroom Designer with over 10 years of industry experience, including eight years specialising in kitchens. Passionate about creating functional, beautifully designed spaces tailored to each client’s lifestyle.
Our 200 Year History
Founded in 1825 as a small ironmongery, the business has grown into one of the city’s best-known interiors specialists. From the very beginning, its reputation was built on quality craftsmanship, dependable service, and close relationships with local customers - values that continue to define the company today.
Our bicentenary marks more than the passage of time; it celebrates two centuries of helping Bristol residents create comfortable, stylish homes.
The company was formally registered as Gardiner Sons & Co Ltd in 1893, having already traded for almost 70 years. Established in the 1820s as a blacksmith and ironmonger, Gardiners initially produced practical metal goods for the people of Bristol. As the business expanded through the Victorian era, it operated several large factories manufacturing everything from door handles to ornate iron gates for stately homes.
Among its most notable products were cast-iron kitchen ranges — the predecessors of today’s modern range cookers, which the company still supplies. One of these historic ranges can now be seen at Blaise Castle Museum in Bristol, where it was donated to the collection during the 1980s.
Gardiners’ reputation for precision and quality attracted distinguished customers. One of the most famous was Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who commissioned the company to create bespoke drawing instruments, including scale dividers made to his own design. Engraved with “Gardiners Bristol,” these tools are now preserved at the Brunel Institute beside the SS Great Britain.
In the early twentieth century, the company further diversified into large-scale metal fabrication. Its work included structural features for the entrance to the Festival of Britain and elements of the steel framework inside the iconic twin towers of the original Wembley (Empire) Stadium, built in 1923.
Through every chapter of its history, from ironmongery to interiors, Gardiner Haskins Interiors has remained rooted in craftsmanship, innovation, and service to the Bristol community.
Location and Free Parking
Brunel Rooms
1 Straight Street
Bristol
BS2 0FQ