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designer-maker of Fine Hand Crafted Contemporary & Traditional Furniture | |||||
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designer-maker of Fine Hand Crafted Contemporary & Traditional Furniture | |||||
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Philip Dobbins creates bespoke designer-made furniture; drawing inspiration from over thirty years’ skilled craftsmanship, he employs the finest of woods and complementary materials, and merges traditional techniques with contemporary design. Alongside heritage furniture for collectors and exhibition, Philip undertakes commissioned work; interpreting the client’s taste and lifestyle, to design a piece that they will enjoy living with as much as he has enjoyed making it. The commissioning process usually begins with a visit to the proposed location of a new piece, so that Philip routinely travels to clients around the country. Philip’s work is regularly shown at the principal furniture exhibitions and galleries, from ‘Celebration of Craftsmanship & Design’ at Cheltenham, to ‘Antiques for the Future IV’ at Sotheby’s. With a training in the traditional furniture craft skills, Philip still creates occasional copies of period pieces. "My workshop experience has evolved from early years making exacting copies of the finest period furniture, through to the present, when I aim to be fully involved with the design and making of contemporary bespoke furniture, both to commission, and speculatively for galleries and exhibitions." "Commission work allows me to interpret the client’s ideas at the highest level of craftsmanship. Speculative pieces allow me to develop my ideas of the continuing tradition of furniture design; informed by that tradition, rather than self-consciously innovative, I look to many periods of design for inspiration, and happily rework a concept that pleases me." |
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Exhibitions 2009 Making the Future, Portman Village, London 2009 Antiques for the Future IV, Sotheby’s, London 2009 21st Century Furniture, The Millinery Works Gallery, Islington 1993-2009 Celebration of Craftsmanship, Cheltenham 2007-2009 Northern Contemporary Furniture Makers at Tennants, Leyburn 2008 NCFM at Whalley Bridge, Derbyshire 2008 New Beginnings, SDC Gallery, London 2008 Reception, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 2005/2008 Designer Crafts at The Mall (Society of Designer Craftsmen) 2007 Bespoke, Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers 2004 Art of Furniture, Artifex, Birmingham 2002 SOFA Exhibition, Chicago 1990 Furniture of Excellence, Wilmslow, Cheshire |
Galleries 2009 Designer Makers, Harrogate 1998-2009 Artifex Gallery, Sutton Colefield 2008-2009 Langton Green Gallery, Tunbridge Wells 2006-2009 Hunter Gallery Suffolk 2007-2008 Bespoke, Cheltenham 2008 Arcaz, Whalley Bridge 1997-2006 Artizana Gallery, Prestbury, Cheshire 2003-2004 Centre for Contemporary Furniture, Cheltenham |
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Books
2007
Bespoke, Source Book Of Furniture Designer Makers, Stobart and Davies
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Awards 2009 Shortlisted for The Wood Awards
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Membership 2006 Northern Contemporary Furniture Makers 2003 Designer Makers.Org.Uk 2004 Society of Designer Craftsmen |
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