Sloan Roberts began long before the first handle was made.
The name was first imagined in 2005, drawn from the middle names of founders David Sloan Kruse and Nigel Robert Brown. At the time, it was simply an idea — a name that held two perspectives together. Years later, it would become the foundation for a design brand shaped by materiality, restraint and considered detail.
Sloan Roberts is founded by husbands David and Nigel, whose partnership brings together two distinct but complementary ways of thinking. David brings a multi-award-winning product design background, shaped by form, proportion and storytelling. Nigel brings over 20 years of trade, project management and manufacturing experience — with a practical understanding of how things are made, assembled and resolved.
Together, they created Sloan Roberts with a simple belief: the smallest details in a space deserve the same level of consideration as the largest ones.
Two perspectives, one point of view
Every interior is shaped by a series of decisions. Some are large and architectural. Others are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
For David and Nigel, cabinet hardware sat somewhere between the two. It was functional, but expressive — one of the few details touched every day, and yet often treated as an afterthought. The options available felt limited, fixed in finish, material and expression.
Sloan Roberts exists in the meeting point between design and making, concept and practicality. Design-led, but grounded. Refined, but practical.
Why hardware?
Hardware is the point where cabinetry becomes tactile. Where a drawer is opened. Where a robe is hung. Where a bathroom vanity, bedside or kitchen becomes part of daily ritual.
For something touched so often, hardware has the potential to hold more meaning. Sloan Roberts was created to explore that potential — through material, proportion and detail. Hardware should not simply be selected at the end of a project. It should be composed as part of the broader interior palette.
Timber, stone, metal, light and texture all shape the way a room feels. Hardware should sit in conversation with those elements, not apart from them.
The first collection
Ensemble, the first Sloan Roberts collection, grew from this thinking.
Rather than a single fixed product in a single fixed finish, Ensemble was designed as a modular system — a collection of cabinet hardware composed through material, size and detail, allowing each piece to respond to the space it belongs to. Three materials, five sizes, seven button finishes — over four hundred and fifty configurations in total, all hand-assembled in Melbourne.
A piece can sit quietly within a palette or introduce a considered point of contrast. It can align with tapware, echo timber joinery, or pick up the tone of stone. The handles are available now; the Ensemble hook collection joins the system in November 2026.
Materials, handled
Sloan Roberts began with a name. It became a way of thinking.
A belief that materials matter. That small details can shape the feeling of a space. That hardware can be more than a finishing touch.
Each piece is designed and assembled in Melbourne, Australia, with a focus on quality, clarity and material expression — made to complement interiors, not overpower them.
Materials, handled.
— David & Nigel
