Crate Furniture Collection now available at Lifestyle Bazaar

 My 'Crate Furniture Collection' can now be found at Lifestyle Bazaar in Shoreditch. Constructed with salvaged Victorian floorboards and an assemblage of sections from vintage wooden packing crates with their original text and graphics. I've collected old crates for the last ten years from car boot sales and house clearances and started to make furniture from broken sections around a year or two ago. The 'collection' is made up of two sizes of tables, a number of dining chairs, a sideboard/cabinet and an edition of coffee tables. The found woods are cleaned and restored before they are given a new lease of life with either a natural, waxed or varnished finish.

The table seen in the pictures above has now sold but i have just finished and brand new one and delivered it to Lifestyle Bazaar today, i also have a larger 8-10 seater on its way.

 The sideboard/cabinet is 100% recycled; salvaged plywood hoarding framework, Victorian pine floorboard sides and legs, crate packaging front, vintage old stock cast iron handles found in a car boot sale, thick pine dresser top from a junk shop in Margate. Even the screws, nails and hinges were salvaged from a kitchen fitting company.

 the sideboard/cabinet has a paint finish interior and a clear waxed exterior, the handles are in the original grey finish that they were found in.

 I previewed the coffee tables at midcentury-modern; welded steel base with reclaimed heavy pine 'kiln' boards with metal edge banding, salvaged from a brick making company.

The entire collection is very limited in production due to the nature of the salvaged and found materials used in the construction. Available now at  Lifestyle Bazaar.

crate furniture collection

i've been collecting wooden packaging crates for around ten years. i started to edit some of my finds about a year ago and this year i began to work with the badly damaged crates from my collection. these were crates that might have been broken or have sections missing, i still have a large amount of crates that i couldn't justify using in this way.

i also use salvaged victorian pine floorboards in this project, most of these boards have been used by myself time and time again, you can see them on this blog in the south london house, shop interior projects and the midcentury.modern show stand, only the left over scrap floorboards were used. above: desk and chair

 refectory table and set of eight chairs

 patchwork details of table surfaces, depending on the intended use of these tables they can be used as is or with protective glass top surfaces, i would prefer that they are left uncovered to get knocked about.

 the chairs were designed to complement the tables, using the same angles and materials across the family.

 below: a small sideboard fitted with a single cupboard and three drawers, made with reclaimed plywood, vintage wooden crates, salvaged floorboards, pine worktop found in a junk shop in margate, found door handles from a car boot sale in south london and skip-found hinges.

(double click on any of the images to see them in more detail)