Bespoke Guild Mark No.438
Edward has been awarded a Bespoke Guild Mark for his six seater dining table ‘Perpetual Bloom’. To view more click here
Sideboard Bespoke Furniture
As a designer and a maker I understand the medium timber in
great depth. I know how it moves, looks, feels and works, which
allows me to really push the boundaries, to try the untried and
succeed. 'Volumptuous' is a truly unique sideboard, a work of
art, a piece that tested me as a maker and made me feel
uncomfortable as a designer. Using the latest of material
technology, 'Volumptuous' is handmade in Oak and internally lined
with the aromatic Cedar of Lebanon. The once square frame work
was hand shaped to follow each laminated panels form, and then
lightly fumed with ammonia to achieve the chocolate brown
colouring. Volumptuous is as sensuous as furniture gets, visually
stimulating, enticingly tactile and beautifully scented. It
speaks a thousand words about what I believe my work is about.
Ammonia fuming is a traditional process for darkening and
richening the colour of oak. The chemistry is an oxidation of
naturally occurring tannins in the timber. Supposedly it was
discovered by observing the way that oak beams in stables were
darkened on exposure to the fumes from horse urine.
Contemporary handmade sideboard measures (h) 850 (w) 1650 (d)
500
