Timeless Interiors: Furniture Designer, Custom Hand Made Furniture, Reproduction Furniture, Imported Timber Furniture, Australia

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How it all began
Mark Alexander Wakeing initially started in furniture business in 1976 as an apprentice at age 15 winning a "Top Apprentice of the Year" 3 years in a row.
Mark Alexander had a passion for perfection in furniture from early age. Already at age 17 he was in charge of quality control in a factory of 25 craftsmen. A perfectionist at heart Mark Alexander believes that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing properly.
Below is an interview of Mark Alexander Wakeling and a story if Timeless Interiors in his own words.

When did you first start your own business?
At the age of twenty I started my own business. Working in a small tin shed where the wind would blow through one end and out the other and with a rent of $50 per week.
This was all I could afford. I was worried when the 1st Thursday came around and nobody came to give me a pay cheque. Welcome to the big, wide world!!! I realised quickly that life was up to me.

What was your early inspiration in timber furniture design?
My motivations were Specialty Furniture. There wasn't any quality furniture being made. I wanted to fulfil my dream of becoming an important part of the furniture industry within Australia, from a manufacturing, design, later an interior design point of view.
There was so much chipboard veneer junk coming into the industry. I wanted to use traditional methods and ways combined with modern up to date techniques for new finishes and new forms of construction methods.

   
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What were the major milestones in your career for you?
I have built 4 galleries. The original Timeless Timber Gallery, a large homestead like building on 5 acres was built on the outskirts of Ballarat. I worked and lived there with the factory at the rear and the gallery display in the front.
Steinfelds at Soveriegn Hill was the second Gallery located in an old furniture woodwork store.
The third gallery was Timeless Timber Gallery in Daylesford located in an old picture theatre spread over three levels. The ground level was themed as Roman ruins while the fist floor had an Art Deco theme. A café was also located on the second level with a silent picture mural and theme.
The current and finest Gallery is located in an Historic 1854 heritage Bank Building and features rooms themed in different colours, styles and eras with the furniture of the time displayed insitu with matching giftware and decorator items.

What are the rewarding points about your career in timber furniture industry?
  • Trained 4 Victorian apprentices of the year.
  • I have won different business awards locally in Ballarat.
  • Fulfilling my vision for the company to build quality furniture; very unique, very different using skills and tradition methods. Featuring traditional shapes and proportions from European and American design, balancing this and bringing this into peoples homes.
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What is the unique offer of Timeless Interiors to its customers?
Timeless Interiors only deal with the best of the best of furniture craftsmen working together as one and striving for perfection in furniture making. Customers of Timeless Interiors get the benefit of specialist furniture and skills from furniture craftsmen who specialise in a particular area of expertise.
Being in business for over 30 years, you get to make a lot of professional partnership in the industry. The beauty of the company today is that not only do we manufacture timber furniture but we know and have access to the best people in Australia who are perfectionists in their own right whether it be individual lounge suite companies or individual styles of furniture.
Major milestones- I have built 4 galleries, the original Timeless Timber Gallery on the outskirts of Ballarat, a large homestead like building on 5 acres. I worked and lived there with the factory at the rear and the gallery display in the front.
Timeless Interiors provide access to the best makers and supplies of:

  • the best Australian native timber furniture,
  • the best Makers and Suppliers of French furniture,
  • the best Reproductions from overseas; Italy, China, Asia and America,
  • the best contacts within the textile industry.
  • Access to best upholsterers and leather workers in the country.
What is the advantage of designing furniture using Timeless Interiors?
Timeless Interiors can design and manufacture the right pieces in the right spot of your room.
30 years of research, living and working the industry I love has produced a great network, the best network in Australia when it comes to manufacture and design. Timeless interiors are able to source any Designer interiors services and designer products that you are looking for.
A lot of designers and decorators are locked into one theme with one supplier of furniture of a specific type. We have access to the best makers of any different style of furniture. If you want French frames Timeless Interiors are able to source them direct from manufacturer.
If you want Italian styles or Art Deco pieces, we know where to get them or we can manufacture them ourselves. If you want a 5 metre long bookcase we can produce this specifically for you.
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