"Hay Shovel Chair 2024" Some time back I asked Designer/Weaver Eleanor Pritchard if she'd like to collaborate on a project with me and was delighted when she agreed. I've been usuing her fabrics for many years and over time we have established a good working relationship and friendship so I knew I could trust to her to come up with something interesting for me to work with.  I found a chair on the street in Swansea and sent her a picture, asking her to come up with an idea to transform it. She sent me this picture of a shovel she had seen at Compton Verney... ...and this ..read more

    "Acid Moss Chair 2023."  Another Guerrilla REupholstery collaboration with artist Julie Ann Sheridan  We made this for our friend Eddie who gave so much help to our daughter for her Spanish A Level (now doing a Spanish degree like) cheers Eddie and thanks for saying "do whatever you want" with the chair because there's no way any normal commission is going to end up like this, let's face it. Chair found on street in Carmarthen.    Julie's first drawing based on a foliose lichen idea and some soft sculpture legs similar to some others she had recently ma ..read more

   Orange Peel Fungus Chair - collaboration with artist Julie Ann Sheridan.     This was a Guerilla Reupholstery project made from the bones of this chair that we took from the streets of Bristol and turned it into this Here's the full story behind it. Some time back I was inspired by the Instagram account of Bristol-based upholsterer Sadie Campbell who photographs discarded furniture on the streets of Bristol (check out @sadiedidi) with such alarming regularity that I thought I have to do something about it. So I asked her to locate an armchair that I could pick up ..read more

 I haven't updated this blog with many reupholstery projects recently so here's a few pics of what we've been up to ..read more

  My daughter who is now 15 is teaching herself chair caning, here's her first commercial job for one of my customers who trusted her with this nice little chair that's been in the family for years The cane work is not perfect and she probably has a way to go before she gets it absolutely right, but you have to agree it's looking pretty good and solid So watch this space and if you have a small project you'd like her to do when the GCSEs are over, get in touch ..read more

 Over the years I've made quite a few little amendments and modifications to chairs that have just occurred to me to during the reupholstery process but the one everyone seems to love are toggles Chairs with loose seat pads are often secured with poppers, ties or ribbons but I've never seen anyone else use toggles, have you ..read more

  Guerrilla Reupholstery Project One   I wanted to make a chair that looked like it had been left in the woods and been taken over by nature, you know: wet, bloated and colonised by moss and fungus. Quite why I wanted to do that I'm not sure but I suspect it has to do with living in this rural environment - inspiration shifts when you no longer live in the city and the hard, angular, urban shapes in the mind are replaced with soft, organic forms. Whether this suggests that the sharpness of the mind is also lost in this process I will leave up to you to decide.   Anyway, so ..read more

 Fat chair now available to bus travellers on the A49 at Wellington Marsh, Herefordshire.   The chair is from the Bag of Walnuts series - see previous post for an explanation like. From August 2020 ..read more

 Stool now available to bus travellers on the A4067 at Abercraf. The stool was once a table I picked up in the street and upholstered with inspiration from the dresses of the wonderful band Otoboke Beaver. from July 2020 ..read more

 Peculier seat now available to bus travellers on the A438 near Bronllys. Stool from the Bag of Walnuts series - see previous post ..read more