April 20, 2025
More than 20 of Scotland’s top furniture makers will exhibit their work at Dalkeith Palace this summer.
The Scottish Furniture Makers Association is a membership body which promotes and supports independent furniture designers and makers across Scotland, celebrating their art, craft and creativity.
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April 20, 2025
December 5, 2024
Ash Sounds on Sunday 15th December 12.00 - 1.30pm at John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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September 19, 2024
Ash Rise is now open at the John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
The Scottish Furniture Makers Association showcases the beauty and diversity of furniture being designed and made in Scotland today
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Interview - Gavin Robertson
As a furniture maker who is constantly creating new designs and working with new techniques, Gavin Robertson particularly enjoys this side of the creative process, an aspect of the business that comes about through engagement with clients, and this is perhaps the reason that the work is so varied every day. When a client seeks a piece of furniture that is not mass produced, Gavin feels his job is to work within the brief each project presents. His work is by its very nature ‘client-driven’ as he is creating pieces that are personal and speci...
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I am drawn to pieces that find a place in my home. I was brought up in the 60’s and the new clean post utility fashion was strong, made with increasin...
I’m very much a materials focused designer. I enjoy choosing wood that complements my designs and aim to use it in a sympathetic way. My style constan...
I prefer working in solid wood because it is both technically challenging, and extremely beautiful. Nothing can replace or emulate the look of a fine...
My work is mostly commission based so each piece is a bit different but I tend to make pieces that are a bit contemporary and feature flowing, organic...
As a designer/maker of contemporary wooden furniture – my favourite material for my work is, not surprisingly, wood. More precisely where I use a win...
The perfect chair! Ultimately, it’s an unachievable goal – marrying form, function and fortitude to such a degree – but it won’t stop me trying.
I love working with Scottish hardwoods, they have so much unique character and I love that it’s a local sustainable product.
I create a style of simplicity with shapes of inner-tree growth and joints of pegs and wedges. Variations of a simple stool can be endless. In essence...
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Local wood local maker - Tom Cooper
I told them all about The Local Woods for Local Makers Project, and how Dutch elm diseased trees from The Meadows in Edinburgh were being given a new life in the form of beautiful hand crafted furniture. They were immediately enthused about the idea, and were very keen to have the lectern produced using timber from these magnificent trees.
I set too preparing a series of design sketches to present to the College of Surgeon’s office bearers, which were then discussed and deliberated over, which for me was an interesting experience of ...
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In the fourth podcast Stephen Finch and Janie Morrison talk to Jonathan Rose about what it’s like to work with wood and being designer makers in Edinb...
The third podcast features Richard England as he shares with Janie Morrison and Jonathan Rose the transition into a second career, one of making thing...
In the second podcast of the series, Jonathan Rose is in conversation with fellow designer-maker Jack Sheahan who talks about his new life in Edinburg...
In the first podcast of the series, Jonathan Rose talks to fellow designer-maker Tom Addy about his work and life in rural Aberdeenshire and the Ash R...
When I was approached by The Royal College of Surgeons to design and make a bespoke lectern as a gift for the American College of Surgeons, they were ...
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