Edward Barnsley was one of a handful of furniture makers who, remarkably, maintained the living thread of the 19th century Arts and Crafts movement through the course of the twentieth century. He died in the 1980’s, but today the Edward Barnsley Trust continues this tradition with apprentices learning the skills of furniture making in the … Read more
Wynstones school Belfast Truss New Hall project Gloucester’s Wynstones school ‘new hall’ project has reclaimed the Belfast truss, a former barrel vaulted wooden roof structure that disappeared after World War II. This July, the Waldorf Steiner school, Wynstones, completed the second stage of its unique school building project, preparing and raising their new timber frame … Read more
The structural use of timber in office, industrial and commercial building, as part of integrating ecologically sensitive sustainability into the work environment, could go a long way to humanising the work-spaces of the future. Here are three isolated examples in Britain, which begs the question as to why are there are so few precedents. When … Read more
In the late nineteen eighties the German engineer-architect, Frei Otto, visited Dorset in South West England. Otto had been invited by the furniture maker and entrepreneur, John Makepeace, to participate in a wood build experiment which aimed to revitalise the use of roundwood thinnings, or wastewood. The result was the main furniture and crafts workshop … Read more