TIME BASED ARTS NEW WORKSPACE

Just completed a new Rupert Blanchard installation in Time Based Arts Shoreditch nerve centre.  Using ply, scaffolding planks and his signature up-cycled draws we constructed a two part room divide and a expansive L shaped desk, providing enough workspace for three.  Work in progress photos, I will add some finished ones next week.

LEANING TOWER OF FESTOOL

Lego for adults

TIME BASED ARTS

A few pictures of the finished teak desks I built for Time Based Arts last year.  I will be starting some new projects for them very soon.

RIETVELT TABLE

This is a coffee table I built last year, it is inspired by the Zig Zag chair.   It was a birthday present for my friend Elliot, who a big fan of Gerrit Rietveld.

BASEMENT MAKEOVER

Our friends in Deal have a beautiful house overlooking the sea, sadly we spent the week in the basement.  But we transformed the space by leaving the lovely beams and old brickwork exposed and building in storage and clading anything unsightly.

DISPLAY COUNTER FOR MELROSE AND MORGAN

                      

 

Designed by Rupert Blanchard at Styling and Salvage, constructed outside in the beautiful Margate sunshine.  Now installed in Melrose and Morgans' new store in Hampstead. 

SOLID OAK FLOORING

KITCHENS

FESTOOL BIN

THE LIGHTENING SIDEBOARD

Just put the finishing touches to my latest project, constructed solely from salvaged materials from previous jobs.  The main body and legs are made from several off-cuts from a   kitchen we fitted last year.  I joined thin sections together with my biscuit joiner to provide deep enough sections to work with.  The species  is BETE a flamboyant exotic hardwood with an amazingly diverse colour range.  The doors and back panel are oak veneered MDF off-cuts from another kitchen fit, the doors are edged in solid oak strips.  Finished in Osmo oil.

CARETAKERS COTTAGE SHOREDITCH TOWNHALL

This is some of the work I did last year for my friends Mike and Jim who have a post production company in the Ditch. Those boys undertook a massive project last year turning the old caretakers cottage of shoreditch town hall, which I believe had been derelict for a very long time into their business premises. What a transformation, these boys have got a good eye and really know what they want. They created a stylish environment that was sympathetic to the building, which was just a shell when they started. I will post some photos of the finished work, but for now here are some 'work in progress shots'. I built a couple of long desk for their editing equipment from some reclaimed teak science benches. These had to be cut and joined several times, due to sink cut-out etc and needed quite a bit of scraping and sanding to remove all the chewing gum and graffiti. We just about had enough teak for both desks with a couple small scrapes left over. I also built a bookcase over and round the doorway, this was fun as nothing was straight and I was limited with where I could fix due to cabling. I constructed it as a series of boxes which stacked up and over the doorway, this provided much more stability.

OAK FLOORING IN THE SNOW

First job of 2010, was laying a solid oak floor in Walmer, Kent. With what seems like the whole country off work and school due to the heavy snow, we soldier on getting finished on time. There was so much snow on the roads we thought we may have to abandon the vans and the kit.

SHAKER STYLE SHUTTERS

Here's some shaker style shutters we built on site this week. There are four pairs, just over 2 metres high, you can image how much fun they were to hang. MDF panels with softwood framing, now over to Mick the painter to do his thing.