Matthew Sowter

Craft|Design

Overcoming a debilitating illness and ditching a life long career, Matthew headed to Italy to find out how to make bikes, and from that point on never looked back.

Preparing classical modern cuisine at fine dining restaurants and creating bespoke cycles in a London workshop may seem worlds apart. But back in 2009 Matthew Sowter of Saffron Frameworks swapped his chef whites for an oily overall to start making bicycles at Enigma.