Sculpted End table.

The Evans End table was my first piece of furniture of which sparked the inspiration of making and designing furniture my life’s pursuit. After recently moving to Southern California from the South West of England, I believe it was about a year and a half after I had moved I was working in a small cabinet and furniture shop which allowed myself and other employee’s to work on personal projects after hours with the scrap material left over from official projects. We had just finished an executive office refurbishment where we had built a few doors from solid American Walnut, Solid styles and rails and a solid raised panel core, this left some beautiful off cuts ready to be made into something beautiful.

The Evans End Table

The original inspiration for the end table came from an appreciation for Georgian period furniture and how beautifully sculpted each individual furniture piece is and how well proportioned each piece of furniture is to its place in the home. Also how beautifully proportioned the Georgian architecture is and how it is so pleasing to the eye seeming so simple at first glance and yet has a deep understanding of proportion in relation to its structure and its surrounding.

Sculpted pedestal with sculpted legs

The other inspiration for the End Table came from my recent revelation of who Sam Maloof was. My colleagues at the time all very much my senior had watched me build certain personal projects and with such expression of freedom and creativity kept relating me to Maloof and his style of work. I had never heard of Maloof before but intrigued of his work I began researching him and one of my colleagues gave me a book on him which was hand signed and autographed to my colleague personally. The next few weeks I spent the evenings pouring over the book and deep diving into the work of Sam Maloof and how expressive he was in making ordinary everyday furniture tables, chairs, desks, ect; into beautiful sculptural works of art we could use both with practicality and artistic beauty.

Evans End Table

After this discovery that furniture could both serve a practical value and an artistic value things really changed for me as a furniture maker, I no longer wanted to just make furniture but create artistic expressions of practical furniture. wether selecting the correct book matched grain pattern to complement a final piece or sculpting a final original shape to compliment a practical but unique piece the process into how something was made and why it was made began. So everything which has come forth since then has encapsulated this thought process