The Cutting Room is the modern face of A.A. Taylor Limited — a family-run Brighton manufacturer that’s been designing, cutting and finishing bespoke acrylic displays, cases, signage and POS for British businesses since the year the Sinclair C5 launched.
A.A. Taylor started as a small Brighton joinery shop in 1985. Forty years later, the same family runs the same workshop, on the same street. The work has changed shape — from doors and windows to displays and cases — but the way of doing it hasn’t.— The Taylor family & team
The original A.A. Taylor — a small joinery and woodworking shop in central Brighton. Doors, windows, staircases, custom carpentry for local builders and homeowners.
Local shopfitters start asking for acrylic display cases to match the joinery we’re already making for their fit-outs. We buy the first solvent-bonding equipment and start cutting acrylic alongside the timber.
The first CNC router gets installed. Production of repeatable acrylic components becomes possible at volume. Brand agencies start using us for POS rollouts.
The display case side of the business takes off. We build vitrines for regional museums, gallery cases for travelling exhibitions, expo cases for trade-show stand builders.
We launch the trading name “The Cutting Room” for the modern bespoke side of the business — same workshop, same family, dedicated to acrylic and display work. Live quote tools, instant DXF pricing, online specification.
We make bespoke displays, cases, signage and POS for British businesses, schools, museums and brands. Same workshop, same street, same approach. Every job designed and made for the client. No catalogue, no off-the-peg, no “system”.
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.
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. Forty years in, that’s the size and shape we’ve settled into.
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.
The shorthand version of what we tell new clients before we quote anything.
No catalogue, no off-the-peg. Every job designed for the client.
Brighton. Same building, same team. Visit anytime by appointment.
Email enquiries answered same-day or next working day. No exceptions.
Some of our 1990s display cases are still in use. That’s the standard.
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.