sweet . chestnut . 2pack . keep it local

Fresh off the machine is our new upgraded 2pack chair.

We've got hold of some locally coppiced sweet chestnut and re-thunked the joints to make something engineeringly gorgeous.

It was on show for the first time on the British Council stand at 100%Design the other week.

Diddy (the stool) is ready this week . Biggie versions in the pipeline....

slap the spider at 100%....

British Council Competition

So Nick made the final of the UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award and gets to go to Turkey with the other 4 finalists

Nice one fellas, looking forward to it!

http://www.creativeconomy.org.uk/UKYCE/index.asp?ID=13

and Nick is also off to work in India with International Entrepreneur Award winner and all round nice bloke, Siddhartha Das, and some bamboo craftspeople up in Tripura in the North East.

http://www.siddharthadas.com/

November is going to be fun...

shiny.

Here's a new photo taken by present & future legend Glen Pearson.... it's not easy getting good pictures of shiny things...

CloseUp show at the RCA for LDF

For London design festival we've got a few ribbon stools on show at the RCA as part of the 10 years of Helen Hamlyn research projects (Nick did a project there in 2000-1).

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=507445

We'll have some better images of the stools next week, by someone who is good at taking pictures...

crossing the channel again...

we have some products on show in 'Joining the Dots at The Gallery, St Peter Port, Guernsey'. 

never been to Guernsey yet. one day...

new ribbon stools...

So, these things have been a long time coming since a cosmic brainwave on a flight back from Japan. 

Anyway , the first salable manifestations are polished, sandcast aluminium. Made in England by some proper experts and shiny enough to do your hair in front of.

There will only be 100 made. 

 

The ribbons will be shown in the CLOSE UP exhibtion at the RCA towards the end of September.