Profiles

Squeezing past the carcases of half finished furniture, and threading between the makers who’re wielding hand tools, working at a huge tablesaw and around a state-of-the-art vacuum press, we finally reach the narrow design office that is the nucleus of Matthew Burt’s industrious workshop. He lifts his eyes briefly from his drawing board and shakes hands: “Hang on a minute. I just have to finish this layout; I’ve got a…

Are you interested in helping to build a British aviation icon? Aero Vintage Limited is on the lookout for capable woodworkers

A showcase of The Alan Peters Online Furniture Award 2021 winners and their fantastic pieces, alongside an online ceremony and virtual exhibition, organised by Jeremy Broun

As the car’s sat-nav homes in on my destination it takes me left off Gloucester Road and down a small alleyway…

We’re on the cliffs above Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight. Behind us, to the north, the skies are bruised and heavy with the threat of approaching rain. But before us, the glass top of a table — part-silvered by the autumn sun — reflects the passage of billowing clouds as they catch the wind in their huge sails and trail their shadows southwards over the mirrored sea, over the horizon, and over the edge of the glass.…