Thursday, 8 November 2012

The Blooming Lovely Flower Table

The Blooming Lovely Flower Table


The Blooming Lovely Flower Table is a beautiful curved table inspired by flowers.  For this piece I wanted to design something truly organic.  I was drawn to the shape of the fuschia and the gentle curves of long grass, so used those natural lines to create the curves of this table. I steam bent and laminated sycamore and walnut to create the 'petals' with a dash of ripe red splitting the turned tiger oak 'stamen' this piece is elegant, organic and blooming lovely!







Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Jewellery Box


This box was created for a Very Special Client for an important (but publicly unspecified) birthday.  Its made from sycamore with a book-matched walnut burr veneer top and base.

The sliding inside boxes are made from unfinished cedar of Lebanon so every time she opens the box she will get a gentle waft of natural perfume.

The base and boxes are upholstered in padded blue velvet and there's a personal lazer engraved message for the V.S.C on the inside boxes.








Having said that, all my clients are Very Special! (Although I'm married to this one).

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Latest Stack

Firstly please visit my new website at - www.radiancefurniture.co.uk   - its fairly simple at the moment but will be developed as time goes on.

This latest stack is all in sycamore as per the specifications of the client.  I think it works very well and looks light  and bright.  The grain on the drawer fronts is particularly decorative but the whole thing has lovely grain figuring.








The drawers are still English olive ash with unfinished cedar of Lebanon bases and I've used walnut dowels for the decorative effect.


This is a different combination of woods as a demonstration of possible combinations. Sycamore, elm and oak.

Bathroom cabinet

Here's a lovely simple English oak bathroom cabinet with a dovetail construction. A simple, functional design using beautiful wood and decorative traditional dovetails makes the piece an elegant, robust and bloody gorgeous cabinet.








The shaped solid English oak shelf was also made by me and the two were designed to go together.




The most decorative burrs were placed by the bottom 'bathside' corner so they can be seen as someone is languishing in the hot bubble bath.




I decided handles weren't necessary as a recessed bottom on the doors would keep the flow of the grain and were at the perfect height for opening.