BRACHFELD GALLERY
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Furniture Collection

A collection of furniture based on the comfort and simplicity of a repeated curved element - one concave the other convex. The chairs and benches have a plain form and neat footprint, yet the 1000mm radiused curves lift them beyond their apparent naivety.

Their key structural joints are also more sophisticated than is first clear. The back-rests floating perpendicular to the seats with no fixings or strutural signs.

Paris, Autumn 2011.

GLASS HILL & DAVID DAVID
Chair
Edition of 25

The first element in an ongoing collaboration between Glass Hill and the fashion label David David. The Phillips chair re-made in white beech and embellished with a signature hand-drawn geometric pattern.

http://www.daviddavid.co.uk/

London, Spring 2011.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & Co.
Pine
Edition of 24

Constructional grade Russion red pine, laminated and hand turned.

Each piece is stained with a unique shade of murky green/black and hand lacquered with 8 layers of marine epoxy which is topped off with a hard polyurethane varnish. The combination of finishes gives the pieces a fully UV stable super high gloss hard wearing surface.

London, Dec 2010.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & Co.
Chair
Edition of 25

Southern Yellow Pine variously planed, dimensioned and machined.

450mm front seat height pitched at 3degrees to rear along 290mm deep seat.  Back rest opens at 102.5 degrees from seat plane rising to 760mm above floor height and dropping 290mm towards seat back. Overall depth of seat area from back rest plane is 360mm. Seat is mounted to double rails set at an angle 6 degrees from seat edge with 8 no. 4x40mm screws. Both rails are EX45x60mm with a machined top angle of 4 degrees in opposing lateral planes. All legs and support for back rest are morticed into this rail. Front leg mounts perpendicular to rail and seat, back leg at 24 degrees from seat angle and back rest mount at 12.5 degrees on opposing (top) surface. The sides of the chair are parallel.

London, May 2010.

ICA
Cup
Self Production

Taken from the Mash Up event feast at the ICA, the ICA cup is a slip cast and clear glazed ceramic tumbler.

Just the right side for a glass of water of a cup of coffee equally. The fluted shape, not just an aesthetic is tactile and filleable. It also seems to work just right and the stacking, though expected, adds neatness to the placing.

Glass Hill are producing an edition for the ICA and a version for everyone else.

First edition of 50, April 2010.

Content soon.

ICA
Bench
Self production

Taken from the Mash Up event feast at the ICA, the ICA bench is 4m of southern yellow pine, 6 no. 45mm pine dowel and 6 no. solid birch blocks.

A single length of Southern Yellow Pine is ripped to width, the off cut slotting underneath becoming a fin that stiffens the entire length. The birch blocks rebated and mated to the 45mm round dowel legs, then bolted to the underside - removable should the need arise.

All finished in Osmo Polyx-Oil, a hard matte floor lacquer from Germany.

Now resident of the Rochelle School, London.