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This story is about how two Design Nation members exhibited a chair at Decorex 2019, one to make the chair and one to weave the upholstery. It started at Design junction in 2018, when Angie stood back to look at things and said in a casual way, she could put some of her fabric on my chairs. What did I …
If you like luxury design and stunning colours then work by Angie Parker Textiles and Jonathan Rose Design may well be what you are looking for. Together they present Danish Disrupted, a range of chairs, stools and rugs, all made by hand here in the UK. You can meet them at Decorex 2019, 6-9 October 2019, on the Design Nation stand J170. Here is an interview with Design Nation …
I’ll try it in wood and see where I get to. Conventional rails front and back are out because of construction complexity and probably expensive. Diagonal cross rails with a bridle joint where they met are possible. Now to the drawing board and models, observation and experimentation.Scandinavian means simple but not simplistic. An ICF Una chair (Italian) was a good …
From Design Junction 2018 comes a collaboration for Danish Disrupted. Angie Parker’s immediate response to the collection was of its potential for her weaving. A dramatic and unrestrained celebration of colour and a passion for her craft brings together this new work for Spotlight at Devon Guild of Craftsmen. Angie uses a traditional Scandinavian weave in order to show these …
When you start a freelance project it is not always clear where you’re going. You know you want to make something – let’s say a chair because you saw one that someone else has done – and you think, well I could do that, but better. So you hunt around for stuff and tools to make it with and it …
