The person you meet is the one who designs your cinema
Many design businesses work like this:
The principal - the award-winning architect, the celebrated designer, the renowned consultant - wins the project. Then junior staff do most of the work.
It's what happens when scale matters more than excellence. You get safe, instead of special.
I do things differently.
Owen Maddock
owner & designer
I lead every project personally, from first conversation to final handover. Every design decision is mine, and crucially, yours.
'This is incredible'
Engineered for emotional response
Most home technology companies do everything - networking, lighting, door entry, cinema. Cinema is one line on a menu.
The best cinema rooms are built by people who do nothing else. Specialists who've spent years on hard, unglamorous work: learning to design even bass across a room, mastering calibration, understanding how materials and physics shape your experience.
The science behind it goes back decades - academics like Floyd Toole spent their careers establishing what real humans prefer when they listen. If you get this wrong, the equipment won't save you. Get it right, and technology disappears, the story takes over, and you feel things you didn't expect to feel.
Most people have never experienced a room built to that standard. When you have, everything else feels like a compromise.
There are perhaps 25 people worldwide who've done the work to build rooms that perform and move you. I know most of them personally - we meet on the deep-level training while our competitors are on the show floor chatting to reps.
I have the credentials. That's not the point.
Certifications, awards, industry teaching - I have all that. But the point is this:
I do this to give you a wonderful experience watching films at home.
Let's work together
My showroom in Redland, Bristol is a great place to start - because reading about a great cinema is nothing like being in one.
We'll talk about your space, your brief, and whether we're right for each other. I take a limited number of projects each year, so every one gets my full attention.
Call 0117 214 0115 or email showroom@cinemaworks.co.uk to arrange a visit.
Or fill in our new project form to give us some background so we can start thinking about your project.
