The innovative talents of David Roentgen and his inventive European furniture making. This work features finely worked marquetry panels combined with ingenious mechanisms using weights and springs, which with just the press of a button or turn of a key can activate the opening of adjacent doors, popping-out of drawers, hidden niches and secret mirrors. These objects seem almost to turn themselves inside out. Furniture as art is…
An amazingly intricate and complex kinetic sculpture by Scott Weaver, Rolling Through the Bay stands 9 feet tall (2.7m) and uses 100,000 toothpicks from around the world. Scott says 'I always had a dream that I would build the world's largest toothpick sculpture. It's not, but none of the others have ping pong balls that roll through the landmark neighbourhoods and historical locations of San Francisco'. Scott…
Hugh Croft is as happy as a man can be, living in the country and making furniture for a living. His workshop is hardly the last word in comfort and yet he is utterly content. Edward Hopkins discovers his philosophy. Meanwhile I squeeze myself into a workshop no bigger than a double garage and find out how father and son carvers, the fifth generation to earn their crust from the craft, are adapting to changing styles. While…
The Record Power Autumn / Winter 2014/15 catalogue is now available. Having been expanded to 68 pages, the catalogue now features the full range of products as well as two brand new features. The guide to the Record Power bandsaw range gives an easy to digest summary of the full range, accompanied by a new series of online videos which show each machine's features and capabilities. Please visit the Record Power website to see…