My name is Mike and Slope is my creation!

Slope is an outlet for my creativity!

Slope is always evolving!

Slope is new!

Slope is a small furniture design business based in Sligo, Ireland.

The concept of Slope, as it is today, is something that has evolved over decades of making and gathering skills while traveling the globe. Transferring my skills from precision engineering and toolmaking to obtaining a B.Sc. in Furniture Design & Manufacture from ATU Connemara (National Centre for Excellence in Furniture Design and Technology) as a mature student.

A decision to trade the smell of toolroom machine coolant and petrochemical polymers for the sweet scent of hand cut timber and sawdust, was a deliberate one. To embark on a new adventure of creativity, design and working with natural and sustainable materials is a move I feel very strongly about.

Using Birch plywood and solid timber, I design and make high quality, functional furniture with an focus on fine craftmanship and sustainability.

Welcome to Slope.

Mike