Primarily this blog is about my work as a studio furniture designer/maker and the pursuit of beauty.
"Studio Furniture" is emerging terminology used describe the work of what I guess would have traditionally been known as a craftsman, artisan or even tradesman. However, I feel that those traditional terms do not get to heart of what crafts people of our age are attempting to achieve. To put it simply there is more to now, not necessarily from a maker perspective, for example I doubt that my hand skills would ever match those of our fore bears, but more from the world view of craft and the making of things and what drives us to do this work.
All I see and all I feel somehow is distilled down into the work, physically and mentally.
So in a sense studio furniture is art furniture though the "Art Furniture" brand doesn't work for me, it doesn't fit fundamentallity, it's uncomfortable, those who work in the Art industry, well from experience it doesn't fit with them either. Art is art and craft is craft, wood is wood and love is love. Welcome to my blog.
