Bujar Muharremi makes himself a cup of tea, sits down in a chair in the middle of his small garage in Southend, stifles a yawn and relaxes.

It's probably a nice, albeit brief, change of pace for the 29-year-old designer. Everything about his life is fast - the motorbikes around him that he makes with his brother, the fact they work so hard that it only takes a couple of months to build them, the way their business has taken off and now attracts celebrity clients. He even reveals that they bought Microsoft Surfaces to design new bikes on because they're the only devices that can keep up.

'The original sketch to completion is so close together that you almost feel like you blink and the bike's finished,' he says. 'You walk the bikes outside and the sun is setting, everyone has gone home and you can really admire them. A rideable work of art.'

Others think so, too. The bespoke motorbikes that Bujar and his brother, Gaz, produce under their AutoFabrica brand have featured in GQ and Vanity Fair, as well as countless galleries, events and shows across the world. It's an impressive CV for a company that was only set up in 2013 as a hobby.

'We just wanted to build bikes to ride, and we were bored of people telling us that we couldn't do it. We just did it to see what would happen. I think a lot of people are scared to start that process; they look at the end product and think 'actually, no, forget it'. We thought: 'Let's go, let's do what we want'.

The confidence Bujar and his brother Gaz, 42, have in their work is the result of many years of training and experience, built on top of a huge amount of passion for automotive design. 'We've always been petrolheads, it's in our DNA,' Bujar says with a smile. Gaz nods.

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