In 1744 Heppewhite, said, "To unite elegance and utility, and blend the useful with the agreeable, has ever been considered a difficult, but an honourable task." And there's the "Form follows function dictum." "Beauty walks a razor's edge, some day I'll make it mine" (Dylan said that.)
Lots of minds want straight lines, but most bodies don't. I like wood. It's wondrous. The medium has massage.
Richard is based in Brisbane.
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Richard Vaughan
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Most of my time is engaged in designing and making one-off pieces of furniture
in solid wood to commission. I reckon that straight lines are an imposition, a
construct - at once all too human (in control) and yet dehumanising. Certainly
I favour curves in my furniture designs.
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Sydney Blue Gum. Eucalyptus saligna. 110 cm long
I grew up under gum trees and love the way they dapple the light rather than exclude it. The glass was slumped to a stylised leaf pattern.
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The diminishing slats of the tambour suggest a sound bowl. Queensland Maple (Flindersia brayleyana)
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Very tasty Tasmanian Myrtle Veneer (Nothofagus cunninghamii) over hollow ply construction, plus solid Myrtle. It was made for a home which had been modeled on an Irish castle (truly) It is 2.3 metres high.
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Piano seats tend to be hefty benches, but this is for music and even thunder clouds float. For a duet, or teacher and student, the overlapping arcs of the base support individually adjustable gas lift seats. Tasmanian Myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
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Tasmanian Myrtle. Nothofagus cunninghamii.
Height adjustable from cello to flute.
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Made of solid Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) 3.6 metres long. (plus Arthur Boyd)
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( ie for sheet music): Made of Tasmanian Myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii) it is 60 cm high.
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Sun/moon, man/woman, and the fireworks in between. Mostly Spotted Gum (Corymbia maculata) as well as Forest-Oak, (Casuarina torulosa) Silky Oak (Cardwellia sublimus )and Rose Gum (Eucalyptus grandis).
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Silver Ash. Flindersia bourjotiana 180 cm high
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A pair designed for a home office which looked out to the foliage of the trees in their garden. Sydney Blue Gum (Eucalyptus saligna), and Rose Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) with one drawer open.
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Sydney Blue Gum (Eucalyptus saligna)
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An elegantly aware way to offer hospitality. Various Australian hardwood veneers over ply made from plantation grown Hoop Pine (an Australian native species). Winner of the Commercial Viability Award at the Contemporary Furniture Exhibition 2004. Finalist in the national Memento Awards 2005. IP Australia design registration 302545.
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