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Looking to upgrade your stationery this September? Bark & Rock creates stunning wooden notebooks at its West Molesey studio

- Rebecca Younger

What do you buy the person who has everything? That’s a question Luke Gosling asked himself before launching luxury stationery company Bark & Rock in 2018.

While working for his father’s personalisation company Proper Goose, Luke found an increasing number of people were looking for something a little different – that special occasion gift that could be used and cherished for a lifetime.

“It started off with us looking at creating personalised wooden spiral-bound notebooks but then, once we started exploring all the different types of woods and how beautiful we could make the notebooks, we realised we could create a much more niche and luxurious product,” he says. “We source the veneer we use from the UK and make our books to order and by hand. It takes our craftsman four days to make a book from start to finish.”