Furniture to illustrate landscape, by Sam Walsh

Several months ago Sam Walsh received an award from the Arts Council to produce a piece of finely crafted furniture. It was part of an ongoing project in which Sam Walsh explores using furniture design to illustrate landscape.

 

 

 

This piece was designed to represent the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall. Penwith is a rugged peninsula battered by weather off the Atlantic. It is scattered by ancient stone monuments which in their time where built as places of worship using the finest materials and latest technologies. What are left now are magnificent sculptures shaped by centuries of weathering.

The oak carcase takes its form from these monuments.

The drawer fronts are Bog Oak veneer. This was selected to give the piece a sense of age. Bog oak is ancient forest preserved under the ground for anything up to 4000 years old. It was about this time that the stone monuments were being built in Penwith.

 

 

The weather over Cornish Moors it is very rarely a picture postcard sunny day. More often you will see a dark heavy cloud looming over the landscape. The Black fading into the brown on the drawer fronts is used to illustrate this.

 

 

 

 

Sam Walsh has plans to make a series of  furniture projects  based on landscape sites around the UK. To see more of Sam Walsh's furniture projects please visit his website www.sfwbfc.co.uk