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Furniture with soul , Made with love, designed for you alone. Unique. Special, just like its owner

This is furniture that you cannot simply buy. This is unique, handmade, genuine quality, designed with you,and made just for you. Nobody else will have the same piece . Simply the best.....
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Andromeda

partner to the heroic Perseus. Blonde sensous and curvacious she is the essance of femininity. This chair is not made for sitting she is made to be looked at and admired......... [ read more ]

"Gracie and her sisters"

This is "Gracie" and her sisters. A set of sexual curvy chairs all in the same family all similar but each different......... [ read more ]

Beijing Wiggle

Unique handmade furniture. Completed during the spectacular Beijing Olympic games this matched pair of Sycamore cabinets were named after seeing the white water canoe racing. The wriggling curves of this piece were evocative of the way water ........ [ read more ]

Toms Chair

Special chairs for special people. This is Toms Chair an example of hand made unique chairmaking. Like a suit of clothes fitted to you this is a chair fitted to tom. ........ [ read more ]
 

Gracie: A Girl Made Good

Furniture artist designer David Savage announces the arrival of ?Gracie? a new curvacious dining chair shown here made in solid English Walnut.
Handmade at Rowden Farm Workshops in Devon England this is another piece that ..[read more]

Luxury pure luxury...

Forget for a while about those so called luxury items that are really mass produced.
 
This is genuine luxury. Only made for you. Furniture designed by an artist, just for you. Unique, nobody else has the same piece as you. It simply is not possible to just buy this furniture. You need to get involved you need to play a part in its creation. [ Clients Gallery ]
 

Fenella and John

I feel like these chairs have been in the studio for years, and indeed they have been. John and Fenella, our lovely clients have needed infinite patience to follow our slow progress. However, what I feel now is a product that iswell worth the wait.... [ read more ]

The Walnut Tree that lives forever

There was a time many years ago when I felt that selling my furniture was best achieved by standing in front of a few carefully chosen pieces at an exhibition and talking... [ read more ]
  
 

Million Dollar Table

What I want is a table that looks a Million Dollars. My client pointed to a dining room that was visible from the Carrara marble floored entrance hall. It was to sit there all dark and magnificent, not really for use mind you, a bit like limo heels are on shoes... [ read more ]

Useable sculpture

When I was first asked if we made garden furniture, I did pause for thought. Had the enquiry not come from an established client who knew me and knew how we worked I might have said, no, not usually... [ read more ]
  
   Linen fold sideboard
We call it Linenfold because the effect i want is similar to the folds of fabric hanging from a curtain pole. It is also an allusion back to Tudor period oak panelling when there was a fashion for carved "linen Fold" panels... [ read more ]

A Loving Story...

I do so love a good story, well it all started when I was getting married to my Muse, I know artists should never marry Muses but what the hell... [ read more ]
  

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Welcome to David Savage's Blog
  • Heizaburo

    Heizaburo Stool

    Heizaburo is not a young man, he is however a very determined man. A retired dentist from Japan, Heizaburo wanted to improve his woodworking skills........

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  • the gracie girls

    Walnut Dining Chairs go to Wales

    This bank holiday weekend I am on the road with a car load of chairs. We carefully checked that with a squeeze I could carry all ten chairs.......

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  • tom hucker

    World famous furniture maker to visit Rowden

    Thomas Hucker, world famous award winning furniture maker, is due to visit Rowden Workshops next Monday to give a presentation and to speak with our students. He is one of only a handful of designer makers to be included in Furniture with Soul........

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  • grant sonnex

    Inspired by nature

    After an award-winning BBC career producing and presenting natural history radio, Grant Sonnex gave it all up to join the one year course here back in 2009. He?s now established his own fine furniture workshop.........

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  • David Savage London Exhibition

    Class War Furniture Making

    Recently I got a rather pompous e-mail from a fellow furniture maker. He was complaining about my use of the name Woody Nooz, saying that "it made him cringe". The choice of the name is very deliberate on my part it is a political choice..........

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  • Floating Tray

    Floating Furniture: Short Movie

    Have a quick look at this lovely piece of workmanship by one of our current students Ed Wild. The last time I saw this it was on a piece reputed to have been made in the workshops of one Thomas Chippendale. Have a look here........

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  • Ebony bed side cabinet

    Alumni Class of 2009

    A posh, no, pretentious, word for the student body. Why dont we take photos of each year suggested Tim Lovett. Well here you all are Class of 2009........

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  • Ebony bed side cabinet by David Savage

    Less is more

    We've just completed a pair of ebony bedside cabinets for one of my special clients. I was asked to make these pieces for the bedroom of a new London apartment that had just been renovated for my client.........

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  • Lakshmi Bhaskaren - Fine Furniture Making student

    Furniture Designers and material ignorance:

    Lakshmi Bhaskaran is an experienced journalist writing in the field of design. When she sought to become one of my students I thought it would be an interesting experience.........

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  • When looking at Art, all you need are the eyes to see

    When looking at Art, all you need are eyes to see:

    It should be quite straightforward looking at Art, but itˇ¦s not. We should be able to just go in there and it should blow us over but it doesnˇ¦t. One of the problems that we face is the abject quality of so-called contemporary art.........

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  • Furniture makers do it in the snow

    Furniture makers do it in the snow:

    Eight frozen furniture makers at Rowden Farm Workshops in Devon- the home of Furniture with Soul, take time out to make a ten foot high image of uncompromising masculinity at least until the following thaw.........

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  • Beautiful boxes by fine furniture making students

    A fine lot of boxes you got me into:

    Have a look at these wonderful boxes made by our furniture making students........

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  • David Hockney - Blog by Fine Furniture Maker

    Famous artist seeks to kill himself slowly in public :

    David Hockney a much loved British artist was this month guest editor on the BBC news programme Today. During the programme he railed magnificently about the petty restrictions and interferences to natural liberties that this.......

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  • Alan Peters - Blog by Fine Furniture Maker

    Alan Peters R.I.P. :

    Damn, Damn, Damn, I am getting fed up writing obituries on dead furniture makers. Why cant they just go on for ever. I knew Alan quite well. He was a role model and a mentor when I really needed one.......

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  • Lakshmi Bhaskaran - Fine furniture making student

    Stunning New Student Work :

    Lakshmi Bhaskaran was already a successful design journalist when she joined the one year course here just over eight months ago. Her objective was to learn to do herself what she had been writing about for so long.......

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  • John Cederquist visits rowden farm

    John Cederquist to visit Rowden :

    Following on from his speaking engagement at the V and A, the Californian furniture designer maker John Cederquist will be spending a day at Rowden workshops on wednesday 23rd september.......

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  • John Greenwood - fine furniture making student

    Furniture maker gets new job in top Workshop :

    Congratulations to Jonathan Greenwood who has landed a rarely available position in one of Britains top furniture making craft workshops. Greame Scott Furniture are not a well known name, they work from a small backstreet workshop in Devon but they supply highest quality furniture to private clients all over the world.........

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