Furniture
Three views of an Arts & Crafts kitchen created out of a redundant store and barn.
Three views of an Arts & Crafts kitchen created out of a redundant store and barn. Three views of an Arts & Crafts kitchen created out of a redundant store and barn.
The visitors', or 'The Gentlemen's', Cloakroom.<br><i>Builder: Symm</i>
The principal bathroom in a new classical wing.<br><i>Builder: Symm</i> A unique 'rock basin' carved for an Arts & Crafts cloakroom. The principal bathroom in a Regency style extension.<br><i>Joinery: T F Smith</i> A guest room basin and cabinet in Arts & Crafts style. A sumptuous new Arts & Crafts bathroom.
A modern media room.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i>
A gentleman's dressing room in solid cherry with ebony inlays.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i> A Victorian church converted to a study centre, with oak study carrels and bookcases in period.<br><i>Winner of Oxford Preservation Trust Award. Joinery: Alfred Groves</i> A modern take on the Arts & Crafts style, in a native solid elm and ash frame, with yew veneers and walnut inlay details.<br><i>Winner of The Carpenters' Award. Cabinetmaker: Nicholas Dyson</i> The throne room!<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i>
Fine blacksmith work and perfectly formed walnut wreathing to a new stair balustrade.<br><i>Wrought ironwork: James Crossman</i>
A black walnut bookcase.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i> An oak library fit-out for a Tudor house, with hand carved details unique to the house.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i> A rare 1530's carved oak fire surround and overmantle, rescued from a barn, cleaned and polished and given a new purpose in life.<br><i>Builder: Symm</i> A painted library and new ceiling cornices for a house in Wales.<br><i>Joinery: T F Smith</i>
New steps, doorway, panelling, carving, cornices and fireplace, woven into the immovable form of an existing Tudor house.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i>
The hand-carved decoration.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i> Linenfold panelling, but not quite as ever seen before.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i> Handmade blacksmith work designed for a William Morris furniture collector.<br><i>Blacksmith: Fred Harriss</i> Hand carved 'egg and dart' moulding to the painted architrave and walnut door to a new library.<br><i>Joinery: Symm</i>

 

 

 

 
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Furniture is architecture in miniature.  Designing at this scale is the ultimate in resolving problems of materials, construction, junctions, colour and finish, and is especially enjoyable when unique to a particular building or room.

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