Years of hut making (we made our first hut over two decades ago) and having delivered many huts around the UK, Europe and even the USA this amounts to unrivalled experience, which we channel into every hut build. Plankbridge is at the forefront of the shepherd’s hut revival. Commentators have said that this was really triggered by our appearance on BBC TV Countryfile in 2011 with John Craven, and then our Artisan shepherd’s hut garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012 which featured in many design-led magazines in the UK and around theWorld. We remain strongly influenced by the best Victorian hut makers, whose craftsmanship and design informs the contemporary huts we make today. Our furniture makers have worked in some of the famous Dorset workshops, and we treat each hut as if it were in effect a large piece of furniture, a cabinet on wheels! Richard trained at international furniture designer John Makepeace’s Hooke Park College back in the early ’90’s, which at the time was geared to training ‘entrepreneurs in wood’. We are also very keen on the Arts and Crafts philosophy of John Ruskin and William Morris, and have spent many years building a happy team and nurturing apprentice hut makers. We are the only shepherd’s hut makers to be endorsed by the RHS – the Royal Horticultural Society (the RHS) in recognition of our quality and experience.