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...Kitada may only be 34, but he has years of experience as a carpenter....
...With the help of local carpenters Nick Simco and Jacob Habron, stonemason Gary Balman and his father Tony Short (a builder who specialised in historical homes), and 12 months of hard graft, Bonfield started...
...In October, he will turn a pristine space at Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s new west London destination into a “contemporary ruin”, replete with distorted arch forms marked by the sun, water, air and hand-patination...
...As a child growing up in a small town outside Venice, Marco Campardo would regularly help his father, a carpenter, in his workshop....
...He became a carpenter and received a scholarship to further his craft in Germany, where he began with roofing and joinery and went on to study architecture in Berlin....
...As they wander among the homewares, fashion and antiques in the galleried design superstore, they can look down on the factory floor where carpenters and ceramicists are busy with wood and clay....
...This year, Carpenters Workshop Gallery will champion the cause in New York in its exhibition The Female Voice in Modern Design: 1950-2000 (20 April to 3 July)....
...And a wealth of designers and makers are doing just that: reviving centuries-old methods with 21st‑century verve, firing up old factories and bringing back near-forgotten ways of working with wool, clay...
...Before he began working in clay, Herman was described as the West Coast equivalent of the ’80s neo-expressionist movement....
...For more than 10 years he has been producing his “Clay” series of furniture, with its wobbly legs, constructed from hand-moulded synthetic clay around a metal frame, as if building the sets for a giant stop-frame...
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home was some handmade, black-clay La Chamba pottery from Colombia....
...“I got a scholarship to go to Germany to train to be a carpenter,” he continues. “I didn’t want to do architecture or design, and I didn’t expect to work in Europe....
...Not Napa — so the water-holding valley-floor clays become an advantage....
...last spring, he was particularly keen to show me a geological map of St-Émilion that demonstrated, in his quarter of St-Peyd’Armens, an impressive concentration of the sort of water-retaining, iron-rich clay...
...I often follow carpenters who have replaced whole timbers,” says Welsh. Her reward is doing the decoration....
...For most of his time boxing really did have a narrative, centred on the heavyweight division and above all on the life and times of one man with two names: Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali....
...Carpenter’s RCA Group includes a corporate hospitality arm that offers the services of footballers from Gazza to Izzet....
...That was the year of broadcaster Harry Carpenter’s much-repeated gaffe: “Ah, isn’t that nice. The wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.”...
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