Other pieces

This partially upholstered walnut chair was made to replace an ugly alternative for someone who is still active but who has some mobility issues and who wanted something with a high straight back and a short seat she could rise easily from.  While there is a whole industry connected with furniture designed around particular medical needs, very little of it is good-looking and even less of it gladdens the heart.  I don’t see why age, injury or illness should mean forgetting style or delight.

I also store and sell small amounts of hardwood timber, all of it sourced locally.  I needed a space where boards could be air-dried properly and this is the result.  The posts were milled from two oaks which came down after a storm in the woods nearby, I cut the joints and bracings, the steels were second-hand and my design was directed as much by the materials and the curl of the hill as by the shed’s intended function.