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furniture-making

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  • He is known pre-eminently as a furniture designer-maker who, from the 1970s onward, transformed British furniture-making from a moribund and conservative craft, sidelined in the rush to embrace cheerful mass manufacture, to a significant strand in contemporary decorative arts.

    Going Against the Grain Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

  • We've been using laminates which are more often used in furniture-making, but on a very small scale, so we wanted to take it up a notch… It's interesting because normally what we do is very driven by function, and that's what separates architecture from art, it's a very different sensibility.

    Amanda Levete, architect, on her barefoot work policy: 'It's a great leveller' | interview 2011

  • I discover that crafts and skills are the new zeitgeist, and friends envy me my furniture-making course

    A fresher at 50 2011

  • This spring, Somerset House is hosting the first solo retrospective of Mr. Makepeace's work, funded by England's Arts Council in recognition of Mr. Makepeace's role in championing furniture-making as an art form.

    Going Against the Grain Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

  • Mark Gould is doing a part-time furniture-making degree.

    A fresher at 50 2011

  • It's the end of the first semester of my furniture-making foundation degree, and I have just handed in my first ever piece of furniture for marking.

    A fresher at 50 2011

  • After the local furniture-making industry all but vanished over the past few decades, the town dangled tax breaks and other incentives.

    As Whirlpool Exits, Jobs Hunt Begins James R. Hagerty 2011

  • In this period, furniture-making was king of the decorative arts, a field then viewed as the equal to painting or architecture.

    All Hands on Deco David Netto 2011

  • The university must raise awareness of one of the few hands-on furniture-making courses in the south-east of England.

    A fresher at 50 2011

  • She's also the author of a blog about furniture-making, and she joined us from radio station KSKA in Anchorage, Alaska.

    Miami Plays Host To Bloggers Conference 2010

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