Various examples of my bespoke furniture, commissioned by customers over many years.
Versatile extending dining table, made from customer's own oak. The component parts are shown here in various possible combinations: -
One of a pair of console tables
Two joined together to form a circular table seating 6
Two with central leaf inserted to form an oval table seating 8
Traditional dresser in local English oak,
with secret compartment above the cornice.
Polished with beeswax.
Brown oak knee-hole desk.
The bottom two drawers on the right are all one piece,
made to accommodate hanging files.
Oak settle,
based on widened version of a traditional lambing chair.
The seat opens on hinges for storage, doubling as a chest.
Corner cabinet in brown oak,
with coopered door and brass escutcheons
Refectory table, made from oak salvaged from beams that collapsed into this same space during the devastating fire of 1991 in this Lincolnshire country house.
Traditional rocking cradle made from an oak tree
that was blown down in the gales of October 2000.
Cradle can swing, or be fixed by a simple locking device.
Chair and two-seater bench. Part of a set of 12 chairs and benches in oak for country house garden. Beautiful silver colour is a result of natural weathering.
Four poster bed in mahogany,
based on a design from a bed in Chatsworth House.
Country house kitchen,
painted. Beams over the Aga were salvaged fom a major fire.
Triangular cabinet in quarter-sawn oak,
with concealed soss hinges
and triangular spring-catch. An early project.
Walnut desk and chair made from a tree
from the customer's own garden.
I seasoned the wood in my workshop
Painted bookcase, made from a photograph of a piece that the customer had missed in a sale. First picture shows work in primer, the second one shows the finished piece.
One of a pair of bookcases made from the customer's own elm,
seasoned in my workshop
Refectory table and set of chairs.
Table has adzed oak top and elm legs, and the chairs are in oak. On an elm floor.
Pair of Windsor chairs, in yew and ash.
The back bow, the arm bows and crinoline stretchers
are all steam-bent
Pair of glass fronted pine bookcases, built into alcoves
either side of chimney breast in small farmhouse.
I also made the pine fire surround.
Sewing chest in antiqued pine with turned beech handles. Made to customer's design, to accommodate specific needs of her craft.
Painted kitchen in solid pine for Victorian cottage
Memorial bench in oak
Semi-circular garden seat in oak, in three sections
Memorial bench in oak
Semi-circular garden seat in oak, in three sections