Bespoke acrylic & CNC cutting · Brighton workshop

A workshop for things that don’t fit catalogues.

The Cutting Room is a Brighton workshop that designs, cuts, bonds and finishes bespoke acrylic work — display cases, POS, signage, exhibition fixtures, retail fixtures and custom cut parts — for British retailers, brands, agencies, schools, museums and makers. Every job is made to the client’s brief. From a single piece to a 5,000-unit rollout.

1Workshop, Brighton
0Catalogue products
1pcMinimum order
UKDelivered nationwide
The work is always different. The materials and the kit and the people are the same. That’s what bespoke actually means.
— The Cutting Room team
What we make

Six categories of work

01

Display cases & vitrines

Bespoke clear acrylic display cases for museums, expos, art covers, collectibles, private collectors. Made to your exact dimensions, with optional sprayed timber bases. Live quote calculator.

02

Counter, POS & retail displays

Counter display units, tiered glorifiers, dispensers, leaflet-and-product combos, branded POS, dump bins, retail fixtures. Single units to multi-store rollouts. POS displays, counter units.

03

Signage & wayfinding

Office signs, reception backdrops, shop fascias, wayfinding sets, dimensional letters, hanging signs and edge-lit acrylic. Printed, engraved, illuminated. Acrylic signage.

04

Exhibition stand fixtures

Acrylic display cases, branded plinths, lockable showcases, sampling units and signage for trade shows and brand activations. Direct delivery to ExCeL, NEC, Olympia. Express turnaround. Exhibition fixtures.

05

Shopfitting components

Acrylic and timber components for shopfitting contractors, retail installers and brand-managed rollouts. White-label production, drop-ship to store. Shopfitting services.

06

Cutting service & custom parts

Acrylic, polycarbonate and other plastic sheet cut to size by CNC, laser or router. Upload a DXF for instant pricing, or use the sheet calculator for simple rectangles. Cutting service.

How we work

Bespoke means bespoke

There’s no catalogue, no system, no off-the-peg fixture you pick from a printed brochure. Every job we take on is designed for the specific client, the specific brand, the specific space and the specific product going on display.

That sounds inefficient until you realise it’s the only reasonable way to do this kind of work. A retailer’s counter isn’t the same dimensions as another retailer’s counter. A museum’s plinth isn’t the same height as another museum’s plinth. A school’s honours cabinet doesn’t hold the same trophies as another school’s. You either bespoke it or you compromise it.

Same person, brief to finish

One of the differences when you work with us is that the person quoting your job is normally the same person making it. There’s no “sales team” passing the brief to a “production team” via internal email. The brief stays with one person — usually Lawrence — from first conversation through to delivery. Questions come back faster, changes happen quicker, mistakes are rarer.

We’re small enough that this works. We make enough volume to justify the equipment, but not so much that we lose the thread of any individual job.

Made on the bench, not in a meeting

The cutting, bonding, finishing and packing all happen in the same Brighton workshop. We don’t outsource production. We don’t subcontract bonding to a unit in Manchester or ship parts overseas for finishing. If you visit (which you can, by appointment), you’ll see your job on the bench being made.

Fair pricing because we make it ourselves

No agencies, no resellers, no middlemen taking a cut. The price reflects the actual materials and the actual workshop time. That’s why some of our work is more affordable than you’d expect from a bespoke maker — not because we’re cutting corners, but because there’s nobody between you and the people making the thing.

What we care about

The shorthand version of what we tell new clients before we quote anything.

i.

Bespoke means it

No catalogue, no off-the-peg. Every job designed for the client.

ii.

One workshop

Brighton. Same building, same team. Visit anytime by appointment.

iii.

Quote within a day

Email enquiries answered same-day or next working day. No exceptions.

iv.

Built to last

Cast acrylic, solvent-bonded joints, the right thickness for the job. Made to outlast the season.

Frequently asked

About the workshop

What materials do you work with?
Cast acrylic in clear, opal, frosted, coloured and toughened grades. Extruded acrylic (Clear XT) for cost-sensitive work. Polycarbonate for high-impact applications. Dibond, foamex and other rigid composite substrates. PETG and other clear plastics. Plus sprayed timber bases (MDF, oak, walnut) for combined display cases.
What's the minimum order?
One piece. We've made bespoke single-case orders for private collectors and 5,000-unit runs for national retailers in the same week. Pricing scales with quantity, but there's no minimum order quantity or batch size threshold.
Where is your workshop?
11–13 Shaftesbury Place, Brighton BN1 4QS. A ten-minute walk from Brighton railway station. Visitors are welcome by appointment — see live jobs in production, handle materials, meet the team.
Who are your typical clients?
Roughly even mix of agencies and shopfitters (about 40%), retailers and brand managers direct (about 30%), museums and schools (about 20%), and private clients (about 10%). Trade clients across the South of England, retail clients UK-wide.
Do you take on one-off pieces?
Yes. One piece is fine. Most of our display case work is single units — for collectors, art covers, museum vitrines, signed memorabilia, private commissions. The same workshop that runs multi-store rollouts also makes single bespoke pieces.
Do you ship UK-wide?
Yes. Tracked courier for smaller work, pallet network for larger or multi-piece orders. Local Brighton collection available. White-glove delivery available for museum and high-value cases.
Are you VAT registered?
Yes. A.A. Taylor Limited (the parent company of The Cutting Room) is a UK registered limited company, VAT registered, fully insured. Bursar-friendly invoicing for schools and procurement-friendly for institutional clients.
Can I visit the workshop?
Yes, by appointment. The workshop is at 11–13 Shaftesbury Place, Brighton BN1 4QS — ten minutes’ walk from Brighton railway station. Email or call to arrange a slot.
Visit the workshop

Come and see how we work

Walk-throughs are welcome by appointment. See live jobs in production, handle materials in person, meet the team. A ten-minute walk from Brighton railway station.