Most pieces of furniture have one obvious and entirely functional purpose to perform, so it’s always good to see a piece of furniture that doesn’t quite know what it is. Because if you fold up Roderick Groenewegen’s games table, made from mahogany with alder and American walnut veneers, it’s a stylish and beautiful console table …
One of the reasons that Vanessa Johnston from Seattle won the Chippendale Society Prize 2018 was the coherence of her olive ash and wych elm furniture collection. It’s a collection that includes bedside tables, chair, intricate clock, and a dining table that is held together using a complex tenon and rabbet joint, known as a …
The Richard Demarco Prize 2018 has been awarded to an American student whose pepperwood and walnut round table “transcends craftsmanship and design.” John Grillo, a former business intelligence analyst from Denver, Colorado, was presented with his certificate at a reception in Edinburgh. The prize is awarded by the celebrated Professor Richard Demarco CBE, one of the …
Joshua Godbert, from Herefordshire, has shown himself to be a skilled craftsman able to execute both design and making with panache. A previous piece was a complex oak and yew cabinet, with spalted beech shelves and drawer, with an internal arch comprising several pieces of oak that had to be precisely coopered for a perfect …
Matt Hanley from Leominster in Herefordshire is a craftsman whose skills are much influenced by his background as an arboriculturist and his interest in Far Eastern design. He has recently made an eclectic array of wooden bowls made from off-cuts of lime, sycamore, and olive ash – all subtly different in shape and dimension, and …
It’s always a pleasure to see students developing their design talents in different ways, making beautiful and unique pieces of furniture that reflect aspects of their own imagination. One aspect of John Grillo’s creativity has been to embrace the use of timber types that aren’t commonly used, to make a collection of fine furniture that …
