Hedge Chair Workshops

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The Big Tree Society runs wonderful workshops where you can learn the techniques of making hedge chairs from green wood, near Jedburgh in the Scottish boarders.

Charles Taylor Trip

 

 

 

Today we had a fantastic trip to Charles Taylor's incredibly beautiful workshop in Dalkeith. Charles showed us a stunning portfolio of works including many architectural works undertaken for the National Trust and other valued clients. Charles Taylor's workshop is in an old church and currently he employs seven staff, skilled carpenters and craftsmen. It was an awe inspiring workshop, but the students were happy to see machinery that they were familiar with and techniques being used that they knew. Thank you Charles we had a great day.

Colleen and Eric Whitely

 

 Such a clever design solution for book shelves Colleen and Eric's 'hold on tight shelf'.

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein's fantastic explorations of  the possible mutations of a humble social bench, make the benches disfunctional as traditional public seating and instead create interactive street furniture for play, exploration and intrigue.

Lee Kirkbride

Lee Kirkbride's furniture is light and modern and looks deceptively simple but is beautifully crafted from solid ash. Lee works as an inhouse designer for SCP.

Lee Borthwick

Lee Borthwick's work was launched at Tent last year and she has been commissioned to make her wonderful Mirror Tapestries for Anthropologie. using cross sections of branches and laser cut mirror, her textures and combinations of materials are fantastic. Lee Borthwick studied textiles and surface design at Gray's School of Art, RGU and then completed an MA in Constructed Textiles, specialising in mixed media at The Royal College of Art. Bottom image

Ella Robinson

 

 

Ella Robinson's beautiful embroidered wood fantastic way to make furniture unique and add colour and texture. (Thanks)