The lighting of Original BTC is modern and retrospective, intimate and industrial, and most importantly of high-quality. Peter Bowles, the founder, has lived through a lengthy history of British manufacturing, and based on Original BTC's success, Bowles revived a metalwork factory, a ceramics factory, and a nautical outfitter in Birmingham, Stroke-on-Trent, and London Docks respectively. All of them proudly made in Britain, assembled by hand in Oxford, and still run by the family.