Friday 10 March 2017

The One Tree Project


Back in 1998 a 179 year old oak was felled on the Tatton Estate in Cheshire and leading craftsmen were asked to design work using very part of the tree. By 2001 the completed work was gathered in and an excellent book was published, see above. Prince Charles wrote the forward to the book. It can be bought second hand on Amazon, enter 'One Tree Merrell'.
One of the standout pieces was the Dory Shelves (below) designed by Petter Southall which harks back to his training as a boat builder in Norway. This one off piece has come back to the market and is for sale at his lovely showroom in West Bay Dorset for £4,950. In comparison to the work he currently sells this is a relative bargain and I'm sure will represent an excellent future investment as well as a lovely piece to own.
https://sladersyard.wordpress.com/petter-southall-furniture/


Another stand out piece is the Romanian Chest which was Alan Peters last significant piece before his sad decline and passing. I was lucky enough to see this when I visited Alan's wife Laura and it was subsequently bought by the Craft Study Centre in Farnham where it was briefly displayed before being locked away in one of their warehouses, shame.


Matthew Burt made this lovely fluted hall table.


Branch oysters were used to make this top, one for the catwalk only!


Robert Ingham made this bench cleverly combining angles curves and straight lines.
I've heard another one tree project is being planed and I very much forward to seeing the results.


4 comments:

  1. A One Tree Project has been completed here in Germany.I read the article last year in Holzwerken magazine.Very interesting.

    Matthew Curtis

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    1. I'm glad to see others are doing this, it's a great way of highlighting this wonderful material and its uses. All the best, David.

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