Bob Perrin and Greg Rowe were two friends who shared a passion for making things. Fascinated by traditional manufacturing, they loved tinkering with mechanical objects and making them work better.
Forty years ago in East London, with limited funds and a factory that was little more than a garden shed, they began their partnership. Alongside a growing stream of projects from a wide range of different businesses, they worked on their own ideas and innovations.
The idea that made their name, and international reputation, was the world’s first 3 in 1 tap – a tap that dispensed hot, cold and filtered water - using a unique patented waterway.
Technology has always been at the heart of the company, but it’s Bob and Greg’s passion for traditional manufacturing craft that has defined the Perrin & Rowe brand. They believed, and we do today, that every product must be treated individually to ensure the highest possible quality.
Perrin & Rowe became known by architects and design professionals for its quality and durability, so started to appear in famous hotels such as the Savoy, the Langham and Claridges.
Today all the brassware is forged in the Black Country, the engine room of the industrial revolution, where heavy industry remains in the blood. Design, assembly and final quality checks take place at Perrin & Rowe’s main operation in Rainham, on the edge of East London. They continue to fire flawless sanitaryware in Tamworth in Staffordshire using skills that have been handed down through the generations.
Bob Perrin and Greg Rowe retired some years ago, but their legacy and passion live on at Perrin & Rowe. Their principles of small scale production – the better to deliver unrivalled quality - built on British design, engineering and manufacturing excellence, remain in place today. Now a global luxury brand, Perrin & Rowe still treasures its staff, supports its working families and concentrates on the perfection of each product it designs, makes and delivers.