Furniture for the 21 st Century
Rachel Hutchinson
"My designs come about through experimentation; through getting a piece of cardboard or a piece of thin plywood, manipulating it into a form that I tike and developing that into a piece of furniture. My aim within that is to be original as far as I can be. as aware as I am of what has gone before. I aim not to repeat but to innovate '
Rachel Hutchinson
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Rachel Hutchinson 73
‘Zero X’ bathroom cabinet
Sycamore and gold leaf with convex mirror.
150 x 600mm diameter / 6 x 24 in 'Corset' pedestal
Ash and oak with plywood.
The upper corset hangs by an almost invisible nylon thread creating the impression of the sculpture suspended in mid-air.
900 x 420 x 420mm / 36 x 17 x 17 in
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Of all the furniture designer-makers who have started and remained successfully in business over the last twenty years, it would not be a gross exaggeration to state that the bulk of them were trained at Parnham College under the guidance of its principal Robert Ingham. Robert's exacting standards and patient guidance have been a major influence on a string of graduates that are now the backbone of the British designermaking industry. After twenty years at Parnham, creating furniture as and when his commitments would allow, Robert has now settled in a beautiful valley in North Wales designing and making furniture full time.
Wardrobe and dressing table Swiss pear and weathered ripple sycamore.
Wardrobe:
1980 x 2440 x 61 Omm 78 x 96 x 24 in. Dressing table:
1320 x 1370 x510mm 52 x 54 x 20 in.
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Jewellery box
Ripple and weathered sycamore and purpleheart.
180 x 410 x 180mm / 7 x 16 x 7 in.
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Dressing table mirror
Wenge and amboyna.
670 x 740 x 260mm / 26 x 29 x 10 in.
‘Curtsey’ low table Bleached wenge and burr oak.
460 x 920 x 920mm /18 x 36 x 36 in.
Low table
Bleached wenge, bleached burr oak and patinated copper. 500 x 1070 x 1070mm / 20 x 42 x 42 in.
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For ten years Petter Southall built boats, specialising in the graceful Norwegian Oselver Faering. The making of this boat is an art passed from teacher to pupil - there are no plans, Now as a furniture designer - maker he adheres to the same traditional values.
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The ‘Olivia’ china cabinet
The sides and elliptical arch are steam bent from 25mm/1 in. solid book-matched oak. Ripple oak, mouth-blown glass and leather. 2200 x 2450 x 450mm / 87 x 96 x 18 in.
Detail (right)
Cabinet handles in leather bound oak.
