Founded some sixty years ago by Jim Mitchell who in the 1930's moved from the Scottish furniture town of Beith in Ayrshire to the Midlands. An accomplished designer having trained under the critical eye of his father, who was also a highly regarded designer and maker of fine cabinet furniture, Jim settled in Nottingham, where he found work within the growing bespoke upholstery industry. Initially working as a cabinet and upholstery designer, for top end makers in Long Eaton.

Today, Artistic is still a family owned and managed company, and is committed to maintaining the founding principles of excellence in design and quality production set down in the early years.

Artistic was awarded the coveted Production Guild Mark by the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers in the City of London 1998 in recognition of its high quality of production and manufacture which it still holds.

Illustration of the Workshop in the late 1950's.