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first piece underway 15 Jul 2013 | 03:49 am
At last, under clear, blue, Pembrokeshire skies, the first piece of the Land, Sea and Light collection is underway. After the last few months of being a builder, chippy, and decorator as the new wo...
Raw potential 25 Jun 2013 | 02:57 am
There’s nothing that stirs the furniture-making juices like the sight of raw timber – cut, dried, and ready to be chosen. And that’s the pleasure that I’ve just had. Since moving to Pembrokeshire I’v...
The lighhouse cabinet 27 May 2013 | 08:46 pm
Late last year a client arrived to discuss a cabinet for his new Georgian appartment in Clifton, Bristol. He was carefully carrying a large cardboard box. When I asked what the cabinet was for he op...
JCBs and day-flying bats 7 May 2013 | 12:12 am
It’s been a week of arrivals and unexpected help. Birds from Africa, bats from hibernation, carpenters from Tasmania, and machine tools from Milton Keynes. On the nature front the land around the w...
“Expanding Creativity” 28 Apr 2013 | 02:04 pm
Here’s something a bit different! In early July I’m co-running a short course here in St Davids for design professionals who need a chance to sidestep the inevitable creative ruts. With work’s deadli...
Building in sustainability 21 Apr 2013 | 04:51 pm
This was the week that the internal walls of the new workshop went up – timber uprights (studs) and horizontal spacers (noggins – my word of the moment, to be used on every possible occasion). This f...
Making the perfect furniture workshop 15 Apr 2013 | 01:09 am
… well, that’s the dream: a place where the wood is stored in the ideal conditions and the furniture constructed in an environment that is as close as practical to a domestic home. That way, the wood...
Daunted by the work, but welcomed by the sun 7 Apr 2013 | 09:03 pm
Easter has seen a new beginning. Packing the workshop in a van, and waving goodbye to Gloucestershire I drove 150 miles west to the new home of Furniture from Nature under the rocky outcrop of Carn Ll...
On the move in 2013 19 Dec 2012 | 02:59 am
2013 sees the planned move to live and work in the landscape that has become my muse. What began in 2011 as an idea for a collection of furniture inspired by the cliffs and beaches of the St Davids pe...
On the move in 2013 19 Dec 2012 | 02:59 am
2013 sees the planned move to live and work in the landscape that has become my muse. What began in 2011 as an idea for a collection of furniture inspired by the cliffs and beaches of the St Davids pe...
