Cartridge Table

The inspiration for the Cartridge Table was after taking up clay pigeon shooting and seeing how many of these shiny cartridge caps were just thrown away. To me, they had just that little look of treasure.

After playing around with spent cartridges and slotting two of them together, the idea of a table was born. Even though this concept can be scaled to any size, I thought I would start small by making a coffee table.

After sourcing some old tube that the cartridges fitted into, I fabricated legs that resembled shotgun barrels. These were welded and then powder coated gun metal blue. Using the caps as an inlay around the top and sides of the table just adds a little something to the look. After putting all 2,372 cartridges in place, it really did look like a treasure chest. The frame was varnished and aged and, with a shiny new glass top, the Cartridge Table was complete.

Nitrous Oxide Table

i had these two empty cylinders for quite a while when I came across a car with a nitrous oxide kit in the back which looked my cylinders. I collected some other parts to combine them into a small coffee table. I had the sides and frame laser cut and powder coated using the NOS logo from the bottles to complete the look and then finished with a glass top and fitted a switch.

Barrel Stool

I found these beautiful routed iron bench ends at a local reclaimers. I paid over the odds for them because sometimes things just leap out at you and I have learnt over the years, if you love it, get it, because when you go back for it, it's never there. I've tried to find something that's looked like them since, but to this day I still haven't seen anything like them.

I am always looking to change how things are seen. I had an idea to create a stool that you could still fit your latest copy of Country Life into and, to be honest, this unique stool/magazine holder leapt from my work bench in only a few short hours, but it's simplicity and style make for a beautiful piece of furniture.

Mythical Sail Lamp

The Mythical Sail Lamp evolved from a shape I have seen in nature many times and I have always wanted to combine this with a little hint of industry. Whilst digging around a local scrap yard, I came across some aluminium discs which I discovered were cut out to be part of someducting covers that were cut incorrectly. I thought, stacked up, they would look like a giant CD rack.

I created a tall, curved shape using plywood. These would be joined with curved studding and washers to space the gaps - about 600 to be precise. I then decided to splice the metal discs into the shape, creating the sail look I had in my mind. It then grew into a mythical shape that was neither organic nor industrial.

After sanding, staining and air brushing a wavy plant like surface all over, I decided to bring this structure to life using light. Two strips of controllable LEDs would run the length of the sail, allowing light to reflect around and along the reflected surface of the aluminium discs.

The lamp reminds me of when a tree has grown near to a fence or pole and looks like it's almost absorbing the object. We can only aspire to be as clever as nature.