Roger Whitfield - furniture
For 32 years from 1986 to 2018, at my workshop in Mid Wales, I designed and made wooden furniture which was commissioned &/or bought by people mainly up, down and across the UK but occasionally from overseas.
My practice was based on the use of native and other temperate hardwoods, and on explicit wooden jointing methods. Practicality, structure and good proportions were key considerations. I also produced bespoke joinery such as kitchens, windows and doors.
I no longer have a workshop, but this page provides something of a record of what I did.
On the bench - ladderback chair assembly (yew wood).
Leg and seat interlock - ladderback chair.
Ladderback chairs in oak and yew.
Study table (desk) in ash-wood.
Study table - structure.
Dining table and chairs in native ash.
Board-back chairs in oak.
A batch of cantilever chair parts on the bench.
Cantilever chairs in ash wood.
Informal sideboard, elm wood.
Elm sideboard detail.
Ash-wood easy rocker (one of my earliest chair designs).
Slant-leg chairs in oak.
Commissioned slant-leg chair variant with armrests.
Sycamore table detail.
Sycamore table.
Writing table in progress (yew wood).
Writing table completed.
Yew dining table, from a log that I bought and had sawn in Cumbria.
Boxes from elm wood.
Dovetailed coffer in native oak.
Replacement double-hung sash windows, grade 2 listed building.
External joinery in Douglas fir, timber-frame new build.