Category: Studio Practice

A man once emailed a photograph of a sideboard he liked, asked for “the same but a bit longer,” and

The worst damage I have ever seen to a finished piece happened in a stairwell, four feet from its final

The question that arrives in every first conversation is how long it will take, and the honest first answer —

Somebody asked for a quote on one stool, then on six of the same stool, and was annoyed that six

Around the eightieth commission I started keeping a single page per job: what was quoted, what it actually took, and

A woman brought in her grandmother’s dressing table with a top that had been stripped, re-stained the wrong colour, and