Jeremy Broun FSD-C

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Monday, 17 September 2012

The New Golden Age of British Furniture

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          I first wrote about 'The New Golden Age of Contemporary Craftsmanship & Design' around 1990 in a magazine called Wood...
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Monday, 3 September 2012

The JKB Window Hook Roof Platform

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         The JKB Window Hook   roof platform is a custom built device for hooking onto a dormer window and resting on the roof tiles in or...
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Saturday, 1 September 2012

Passion for design

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        Probably the most successful British chair of the 20th Century is the polypropylene  stacking chair by Robin Day for Hille Internat...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

The late Andrew Varah

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        Andrew Varah died in July 2012, delivering something of a shock to the British bespoke furniture making community where he had beco...
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Fear of wood

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     Many years ago a well known award winning local architect  was tragically killed whilst chainsawing a tree on his land. It fell on top...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

Murphy's Radio

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       Many will know the colour and style of Cheryl Cole's hair, few will know who Cheryl Cole is and everybody knows who Simon Cowell...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011

The Buzzword is Making Things

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    The great thing about a blog is that you can say what you want without a magazine editor changing or messing up what you have written. ...
Sunday, 30 October 2011

Flat pack hunter gatherer

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  Apparantly part of Swedish furniture giant IKEA's success is that it appeals to male hunter gatherer instinct. Insert four scan bolts...
Friday, 21 October 2011

Furniture Today

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   I am working on 'Furniture Today Part Three', a DVD project I began in 1998. At that time it was mostly furniture 'yesterday...
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Thursday, 6 October 2011

Come back when youre famous

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   I think it was the year of 1973 and I was working in a converted cattleshed workshop on the outskirts of Bath. The rent was £5 per week....
Friday, 30 September 2011

Dovetails - The Holy Grail

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   In the world of woodworking there is nothing more striking than a dovetail joint and what it represents historically. Many still argue ...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011

My Beautiful Hands

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   A few days ago I did a stupid thing and whilst using a portable metal grinder the molegrips slackened, the metal moved and the rotating ...
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