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...The project, Blunk House, is a retreat created by the US artist and designer JB Blunk (1926-2002), which was both his home and a showcase of his work, encapsulating his approach to craft and life....
...“Our project expanded,” he said....
...The Spanish wooden furniture company Woodendot is based in the small village of Íscar, in Valladolid, an area known for its woodworking industries....
...Now 87, she lives alone, mows her own lawn and tends her own garden, which when we meet is flowering tomatoes and is soon to sprout some beans, as well as overseeing half a dozen renovation projects for...
...He also has to complete a couple of projects, including his Queen’s Green Canopy, a tree-planting endeavour....
...“We also work with small local businesses on upholstery and woodworking.”...
...Vanderbilt’s socially progressive wife, Edith, helped to subsidise a craft-education programme that trained locals in traditions of woodworking and weaving....
...The Anatevka project began in 2014 as the fighting tore through eastern Ukraine, a region with about 20,000 Jews. Many fled the violence....
...Tokyo-born, London-based designer Emiko Oki had invited him to participate in a project entitled “Collacqueration — designed in the UK, lacquered in Japan”....
...takes me through a side-door into the cavernous workshop and hunts for coffee while calling out introductions to the students and workshop manager Charlie Corry Wright, who tells me about the different woodworking...
...But a project run by London gallery Fumi with the academic and curator Jana Scholze persuaded him to go against his usual principles....
...Like many a school project before them, his RISD creations are now safely ensconced at his parents’ house....
...The pride of the place is the Treehouse, a Riba award-winning project, built in the branches of an oak tree and available to rent....
...One of the skulls featured in the project is thought to be that of a carpenter. It was found immediately below the Master Carpenter’s cabin near a number of woodworking tools....
...He planned to teach ceramics and woodworking, to sow patriotism through craft. Things went wrong from the start....
...You can get married there, attend a talk on privatised travel to Mars, learn Japanese woodworking techniques and computer animation, or sprawl on cushions for a gamelan concert....
...The surrounding walls are hung with detailed drawings that show the genesis and development of the project....
...For Bass, 57, it is the sort of project he might toss off in a morning. He’s been building things most of his life, starting in college when he needed furniture for his dormitory room....
...At least one designer fits the bill: Brian Volk-Zimmerman of Volk Furniture serendipitously arrived at woodworking through music....
...It now employs 350 local people and has rejuvenated 40 buildings, also generating collateral social projects and abundant goodwill....
...During a break from a woodworking job at an upmarket renovation project, Ronnie, a joiner, says he does not know of a single tradesman in the city who declares all his income to the authorities precisely...
...For a new project he recently became interested in Japanese woodworking tools, particularly planes that he describes as “incredible works of art”....
...A kitchen and my woodworking tools. Do you have a dream home? It would be an evolutionary home where I could continually add to the structure....
...Will Frost, woodworks project manager at the trust, says the eco-sensitivities of the new designers are having an impact on the industry....
...The fourth is joinery and woodworking, and we subsequently bought a factory for that so we would be covered.”...
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