One thing about this time of year, there is always a buzz of activity in the garden. Looking up momentarily from my latest project, a...

Design is the rather bland word for thinking a lot about how stuff looks. A designed object is one whose makers work long and hard to...

When I stand before a rather battered, bruised and broken piece of furniture, it can be like standing at a crossroads. One direction...

It can be strangely appealing to be very down about the future of humanity. When we think of the future, apocalyptic scenarios come so...

There are always many stories to hear when working on lovely old furniture. Some verge on being epic tales and others are heartwarming....

We know that we must, to lay claim to any respectability or competence, keep up with the news. That’s why we’ve ringed the earth with...

Awareness is what life’s all about. At least, it’s what I like my life to be about. At the end of it I want to be able to say,...

It is perhaps the most famous photograph ever taken. It came into being almost by accident, when on the morning of Christmas Eve 1968 one...

Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there’s a natural impulse to want to capture and preserve it – which means, in this...

I have to make a confession. I really don’t like the retail consumption culture that is thriving in our community – Black Friday,...

Many of the pieces of furniture that find their way into my path have stories about war attached to them. The main events are typically...

We devote major portions of our time on earth to working and we want our careers to go well. But there’s a range of problems that can...

Though we may keep a little quiet about this, especially when we’re young, we tend deep down to be rather hopeful that we will –...

I have been working on a couple of particularly challenging projects recently. They really required some lateral thinking to a number of...

‘Creativity’ is one of the most prestigious ideas of modern times and as a result, we often want to feel creative while lamenting that...

I was out the other day picking up a piece of furniture. I stopped by at a little corner store to get a drink. It was a curious place...

I spend just about all my spare hours and minutes around beautiful furniture. I dive deeply into the creative work of (usually) nameless...

A conversation with a friend recently on my love of beautiful furniture, strayed onto the topic of materialism – also knowing how...

We become very comfortable with our lot. We don't tend to think too much about words we routinely use, assumptions we neatly pack and...

Is it an original? In one sense, who cares? Fake, copy, pastiche, forgery, reproduction. Many of the most bitter insults of the art...