2nd Office re fit well underway for Hancocks the Jewelers – working with James Huddlestone.
Layout for office desk space flow.

And these forms will all become perfectly clear – eventually – pair of folding/locking exterior benches for Southwark Borough Council.
Prep for concrete foundation blocking.

New Insictor bench wins prize at Best of the Best at ‘Art in Action’ July 2010.

The Insictor project received 3rd prize in this years Best of the Best Marquee at Art in Action.
Images:
1 to 4 Anja Rott for chaircreative
5,6 Michael Harvey

Walrus Nebula – The large chestnut burr coffee table nears completion, now commencing final oil finishing. Legs in bleached ash.
meanwhile new chairs for ‘Hancocks’ the Jewellers taking shape.

Meanwhile, this fabulous coffee table is taking shape at the workshop. Burr chestnut.
Oh the joys of electric chainsaws!

Here you can see the rough profile taking shape.

The character of the burr is of course quite fantastic. We had the burr board milled to 110 mm thickness to give the table a look of real substance and allow the creation of the sumptuous rolled edges. It was also decided to maintain as much of the fissure details as possible within the piece – very much reminiscent of craggy coastlines. The shape also following a marine biased theme – sails, hulls, sharks teeth and flint arrow heads…
When complete this will be a 3 leg design – 2300 x 950 max width.

So pair of site specific desks now completed for Hancocks the Jewelers office, London.

Installation will be on Friday, Jan 8th, provided that is can dig the van out of the snow and get there!
location images to follow.

Sail chairs completed for the previous installation of Sail tables.

Earlier in December, getting to the workshop became a much whiter experience!

Another day at the office. Carving the under hanging draw of the Hancocks the Jewelers office desks.
Installation mid January 2010

Desks in creation.

see earlier posting – radial fins & engine blocks for design concept.

Desks for Hancocks the Jewelers office now well underway. Here is a pic of James assembling the radiating board structures for the desk tops. 1st image shows the template for the form. It will all become clearer once we cut out the profile shape.
Today we have been correlating the radial fin elements of the base structures. Watch this space! pics coming soon.

Also a couple of pics of the glass screen partition screen designed earlier this year for the shop space.
Desks and cabinet work in shop by Ian Spencer.

And as we go into Autumn here are a couple of seasonal variations of the Sleeping Dragon bench.

Sail chairs taking shape at the chaircreative workshop.
These are the chairs for the earlier created Sail Tables – see earlier posting.

Very much a constructed pattern cut design the sail chairs use prime 1/4 sawn air dry oak and A4/316 marine grade stainless steel fittings.

More images will be posted of the entire sail chair group once complete.

Where do ideas come from?

Here are some mock up concept design drawings of one of the latest chaircreative projects – office re design for Jewelers shop in W1, London.

The general concept is to create a more fluid space that is easy to move around both physically and visually. Currently working on the design of the desks.
Think engine blocks, think church wall buttresses, think – Radial fins!

Yes, really!

This is the driving (no pun intended) motive around the draw carcass units that will create the desired look of fluidity in the curvaceous desk forms.
You can begin to see the development of the final design through these mock up drawings.
Once the desks are created will we then be moving onto the creation of chairs and other interior elements to suit.

More as this project develops. Working with James Huddleston fine furniture maker in the creation of this project.