9th October 2018
Stuff has been selling wildly at Painted Farmgirl, meaning we had to deliver the dresser that was just finished yesterday along with a small table that we had taken out a few week ago. It was not really enough to fill the space, but we made it as good as we could.
I had arranged to meet Tom Newhouse at the booth to catch up and introduce him to Kelli.
Tom was a designer, and had spent a couple of years in Bath working on some products for HM. He was there when I joined the company, and it was my first experience of working with a man of his energy and passion for design. We went to the Hudsonville Winery, which was a great place, and just down the road, and within staggering distance. It was a fun talking about the early days, of the drinking sessions at Orgatec, in the eighties. Tom has just about retired, and was turning his attention back to sculpture. What I didn’t realise was he had done pieces in the seventies using polyknit fabric stretched over timber shapes. These had been used in HM showrooms, but now unfortunately lost. The new work he showed pictures of is remarkable, and beautiful, I can’t wait to see it in reality.
The evening was completed by meeting John and Patti fellow furniture restorers for dinner.
Another Lifetime to go 