I particularly loved creating ‘oyster veneers’. These are thin slices of wood cut from the ends of logs and then arranged into concentric circles. It’s something of a lost art, but I see the same pattern in the ends of the oak we use today. I sell my furniture all over the world and for a long time I had a showroom in America at the High Point Furniture Show; the largest furniture and furnishings trade event in the world, where in our category we were three time winners of Best in Show. Here in the UK, we’ve also built a reputation for our design and the quality of our work, which for many years has been bought by the Foreign Office for British embassies around the world.
