European artisanship

The materials and mechanisms inside every Numu piece come from Europe’s most respected makers — chosen, like our timber, for quality that lasts.

Blum is the Austrian family business behind the way fine furniture moves. One of the world’s leading makers of furniture fittings, they engineer the hinges, drawer systems, runners and lift mechanisms that sit hidden inside a well-made cabinet — and the motion technologies, like soft-close BLUMOTION and the touch-to-open TIP-ON, that decide how it feels to use. Their fittings are built to last the lifetime of the furniture they’re fitted to, and supported locally here in South Africa.

We build with Blum because the quality of a piece is in the parts you can’t see. A drawer that glides and closes itself, a door that swings true years from now, a cabinet that still feels effortless long after installation — that is Blum, working quietly inside the joinery.

It’s the difference between furniture that looks the part on day one and furniture that performs for decades. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and Blum is the standard the whole industry measures itself against.

Since 1961, EGGER has grown from a single Austrian sawmill into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wood-based materials — a family business, still headquartered in St. Johann in Tirol, supplying furniture makers and interior designers across the globe.

Their boards and decorative surfaces are known for their flatness, their durability and the sheer breadth of their finishes, from natural wood reproductions to deep textured stone and slate.

We build with EGGER because the inside of a cupboard should be made as well as the front of it. Their materials hold a finish, wear honestly over years of daily use, and are produced to a standard of sustainability that matches the care we put into the joinery itself.

It’s a simple measure of how we work: we choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts. When you commission a Numu piece, the names behind the materials are as considered as the hands that build it.

GRASS is the Austrian specialist in movement — the engineering that brings a piece of furniture to life the moment you touch it. Their movement systems cover the parts of a cabinet you operate every day: drawers, runners, hinges, interior dividers and opening systems, made for kitchens and living spaces alike. From the double-walled Nova Pro Scala to the Vionaro drawer with sides just eight millimetres slim and fully recyclable, the focus is always the same — precise running, integrated damping, and a close so smooth it feels almost weightless.

We build with GRASS for the quality of the gesture: a drawer that glides out level and full, a door that draws itself shut without a sound, a soft push or a light touch that opens a handleless front. It’s the engineering that makes minimalist, handleless cabinetry not just possible but a pleasure to live with.

Their systems are designed to last and built to be recycled, with an obsession for refinement that mirrors our own. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and for movement that feels effortless, GRASS is among the very best in the world.

Gaggenau makes the appliances a professional chef comes home to. A German maker of luxury built-in kitchen appliances with roots reaching back to 1683 in the Black Forest, it pairs restaurant-grade performance with genuinely handcrafted quality — solid stainless steel, weighted knobs, materials and engineering you feel the moment you open an oven door. Ovens, steam and combi ovens, cooktops, extractors, wine cabinets and more, each made for people who can tell the difference and care about it.

We build with Gaggenau when a kitchen is meant to be the best of its kind. Its appliances aren’t hidden away so much as composed into the room — the oven as a centrepiece, the cooktop and ventilation integrated flush — and that calls for cabinetry made to the same exacting level. Joinery and appliance, each holding their line.

Gaggenau shares something fundamental with the way we work: heritage, craftsmanship and performance, with nothing left to chance. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and at the very top of the kitchen, Gaggenau stands alone.

Miele is the benchmark for the appliances at the heart of a kitchen. The German family company has built premium ovens, cooktops, dishwashers and more for over a century, guided by a single promise — Immer Besser, forever better. Every Miele appliance is engineered and tested to perform to the highest standard for a life expectancy of twenty years, which is why the people who buy one rarely go back: once a Miele, always a Miele.

We build with Miele in mind because a bespoke kitchen is only as good as what goes into it. There is little sense in crafting cabinetry to last a lifetime around appliances that won’t — so we design our kitchens to house Miele beautifully, integrated and flush, with the joinery and the appliances holding to the same standard.

It’s a shared philosophy more than a product choice: build it properly, and build it to last. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and in the world of domestic appliances, Miele sets the standard the rest aspire to.

Kesseböhmer is the German engineering behind storage that works harder. An owner-led company specialising in metal processing since 1954, they are one of the world’s leading makers of interior fittings for fine cabinetry — the corner units, larder pull-outs, wall-cabinet lift systems and dressing-room mechanisms that turn awkward, hard-to-reach space into something genuinely usable. Their fittings are precision-built in steel, then plated and powder-coated in-house, and tested to last.

We build with Kesseböhmer for the moments a cabinet has to do something clever — a blind corner that swings its whole contents into the light, a tall larder that glides out fully loaded, a wall unit that lowers to meet you, a dressing room where every drawer, rail and tray has its place. It’s the difference between storage that merely exists and storage that’s a pleasure to use.

Their systems are engineered to last and built to be recycled, with most of their material sourced close to home in Germany. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and for the mechanics of intelligent storage, Kesseböhmer is in a class of its own.

FENIX is the Italian innovation that changed what a surface could feel like. Created by Arpa Industriale in 2013, it’s an award-winning material for interior design — extraordinarily matt, soft to the touch, and engineered to resist fingerprints while holding its colour beautifully under light. Used on everything from worktops and vanity tops to cabinetry fronts and walls, with integrated sinks and basins made to match, it has become a favourite of designers across residential, hospitality and retail interiors worldwide.

We build with FENIX when a piece calls for a flawless, low-glare finish that lives well with daily life. Its surface stays smooth and fingerprint-free where others smudge and shine — and thanks to its thermal healing, fine surface scratches can be smoothed away rather than lived with.

It’s a material chosen for how it looks on day one and how it holds up for years after. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and FENIX represents the very front edge of what a modern surface can do.

Founded in 1927 in Cantù, in the furniture-making heart of Lombardy, TABU is Italy’s master of dyed wood — a family house often described as a sartoria del legno, a tailor of wood. For close to a century they have perfected the dyeing of natural and multilaminar veneers, building the 555 collection: the largest range of dyed wood surfaces in the world, now used by makers and architects in more than sixty countries.

We build with TABU when a piece needs a colour wood doesn’t grow in, or a grain that must repeat flawlessly across a whole run. Their veneers are dyed right through the thickness, with a homogeneity and repeatability no natural board can offer — the same tone, the same character, panel after panel — finished with a silky, almost iridescent surface.

It is wood treated as something noble, drawn from certified forests and produced with real care for the environment it comes from. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and in the world of decorative veneer, few names carry the weight of TABU.

ALPI is an Italian house of wood — a maker of engineered decorative veneers from Modigliana, where real timber is reimagined into surfaces of remarkable consistency, colour and grain. Quality, eco-responsibility and design sit at the centre of everything they produce, and their veneers are sought out by the world’s leading studios, shaped in collaboration with designers such as Piero Lissoni and Yabu Pushelberg and shown each year at Milan Design Week.

We build with ALPI when a piece calls for something more than standard timber — a grain that runs exactly as intended, a tone that holds across a whole run, a finish with the hand of real wood and the precision of considered design. It is wood made to a designer’s brief rather than left to chance.

Their materials are produced from responsibly managed, FSC-certified forests, which matters to us as much as the look: beauty that doesn’t cost the forest it came from. We choose partners the way we choose timber — for quality that lasts — and ALPI is among the finest in the world at what they do.

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