17,000 Sq foot Consignment store, we have a littke of everything, furniture home goods, decorative items, glassware, even clothing and jewelry.
My name is Jeremy Brune and I'm the co-founder of the Furniture Group. The Furniture Group is a handful of independent craftsmen, designer-makers, who link hands once a year and put on an exhibition in Bath during the Bath Festival at the Oncetry Gallery. By putting on an exhibition of new work each year, we are providing a stimulus for our members, but also for the public who wouldn't normally see this kind of work. I think that they're looking for fine craftsmanship and design, exciting design. And I think the ideals of the group is to promote fine craftsmanship and innovation. It means trying to create a new form, a new finish, a new mechanism. Anything that is new, perhaps a way of using an established material in a different way. It can take so many different directions. Yes, so there were two pieces that I made, especially for the show. A low table called the Ammonite and a shelving system. The Ammonite low table is in shot blasted Douglas fur. It's a technique of using crushed glass, which blasts out all the soft grain in the wood and leaves the harder grain raised. The shelving system is in scrubbed and bleached oak. The collector's cabinet, which I made for the Furniture Group, is made of massiled birch and ebony inlay and riffle teak with a dark brown surround. The massiled birch is a fungus, which is in the actual cambion part of the tree. It can also hold CDs, 180 CDs and other small items of anybody's private collection. The importance of what we're doing is we're making a commitment to produce new work. There has been a tendency in previous years for exhibitions to have the same pieces travelling the country until they finally sell. It takes quite a commitment for each individual to actually make something new because they have to take time out to finance the materials and hopefully sell it. But it really is about informing the public and saying, this is what we do, why not be a part of it? Come and have a look at this. This is real magic. This trinket box in olive ash, I think it'solid timber. In fact, this is the end grain here. Lots of little squares of end grain all glued together. And a beautiful, highly precise tray that fits in. This is made by Robert Ingham, one of our members. And look at the way that glides down. It's poetry in motion. And he's even thought about the catches. He's designed his own catches. Lovely piece. What about this then? It's called the wonder material. It's made out of chipboard. In fact, it's the material that everybody raves about. I mean, the public are used to walking on it on floors. And furniture makers use it a lot for making furniture, in particular, veneered furniture. In fact, this is my very point in designing this piece, that we use this wonder material, but we apologize for it. So I wanted to explore its raw character. And in fact, it's a rather indulgent piece because I made it for my own use. It's a filing cabinet for all those A4 sheets that I have. And in this piece here, if you It's a lamp. It's called a cobra lamp. I'm very pleased to have it here. It's brought a lot of trade. Extra trade. It's good. It's different. It's exciting. It's new. Fresh ideas. It's great. I love it. I'm very pleased. Very, very pleased. Come back next year, please. Thank you.
