Spheres

Spheres

When I first visited London as a teenager to stay with my charming Auntie Linda, she would whisk us around on a Routemaster bus and point out all the famous landmarks in a running commentary from the top deck to rival any tour guide.

I have since visited many cities all over the world and enjoyed fabulous times, japes and scrapes in them all but London remains my favourite and is more or less my second home.

But on those first visits with Auntie Linda I noticed and liked the original Routemaster window winders which were a small but substantial metal casting that you turned on a spindle to raise or lower the top windows.

I used to turn them up and down just to feel the motion which probably raised an eyebrow or two with the other passengers but I was curious that they all seemed so well maintained and would glide easily up and down with a simple turn.

So, some years later when experimenting in Sheffield with new designs for a Peppermill I recalled that charming Routemaster detail and somehow translated that into the design that became my bestselling Spheres mills – an award winner that I have since sold all over the world to pretty much all of the places I have ever visited and many more besides.

A little piece of London, by way of a workshop in Sheffield…