Brand · British outdoor furniture
Barlow Tyrie outdoor furniture
Founded · Braintree, Essex, 1920
Collections · 50+ in production
Workshop · Five generations
About Barlow Tyrie
Britain's oldest teakwood outdoor-furniture house. Established in 1920 in Braintree, Essex by Henry and Frederick Barlow Tyrie, the workshop opened with a single material premise, Burmese plantation teak as the only commercial hardwood that could be left unfinished outdoors for the life of a building. The first product was a slatted teak garden bench, a form that has been continuously refined for over a century; the Royal Hospital Chelsea has carried Barlow Tyrie benches in its grounds since the 1920s. The contemporary catalog extends the same craft tradition to 316 marine-grade stainless steel, powder-coated cast aluminum and Textilene mesh slings, with FSC-certified teak air-dried on-site for nine months before joinery begins. Compare with our Gloster, Skagerak and Ethnicraft catalogs for adjacent specs.
Official site: teak.com
Current catalog · 6 collections of note
Inside the workshop
Production has never left the original Braintree workshop. Today it is run by the fourth and fifth generations of the founding family.
Barlow Tyrie joinery still begins with FSC-certified Burmese plantation teak, air-dried on the workshop floor for nine months before the saw touches the timber. The same dimensioning rules used on the original Royal Hospital Chelsea bench in the 1920s govern today's Equinox and Linear programmes, slat thickness, mortise depth and rebate tolerance unchanged. The contemporary outdoor catalog extends the same craft logic to 316 marine-grade stainless steel and powder-coated cast aluminum frames, with Textilene mesh slings and Sunbrella-rated cushion covers. Lead times to the United States are 8 to 14 weeks for stock platforms, 14 to 18 weeks for bespoke runs.
Materials & craft
Four primary material programmes, all engineered for permanent outdoor exposure.
Specifier resources written for US trade buyers, designers, and architects working with European outdoor furniture.
Decision matrix, lifecycle cost, and FSC sourcing.
Brand positioningSide-by-side specifier comparison and hybrid path.
CertificationHow to verify FSC certificates and what to ask for.
FabricSpecifier sheets, hospitality contract grades, COM workflow.
Brand vs brandWhen to specify each, when to specify both.
ProcurementTrade buyer workflow from brief to install.
