Furniture

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.