It is easy to get carried away imagining a happy life. One mentally sketches the perfect job, the ideal relationship, a wide set of...

There is no refuting what a unique piece of furniture can do for an area. Apart from carrying in a touch of the precedent with their...

I decided the other day that I wanted to bring a lot more greenery into the home environment. This naturally meant bringing with it...

If the idea of being a ‘modern’ person and leading a ‘modern’ life still has an exciting ring to it, it’s at least in part down to the...

I recently gave a client’s bentwood dining chairs a quick tune up. Bentwood objects are those made by wetting wood (either by soaking or...

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...