a Pot Ed history .....

Trained as an industrial ceramic designer Edward lived and worked close to the pottery centre of Stoke-on-Trent. He eventually became self-employed diversifying into other markets, paper, tableware, fabrics, wallpapers and bikinis!

Ed has always been a designer, and the designs of the art nouveau and Art Deco period, which he loves, have an influence that is sometimes apparent in his work.  He has drawn on the modern techniques and skills of cabinet making to develop an exciting and individual style.

Ed uses his skill as a designer to bring together the ideas of the customer and his knowledge of furniture making and design to create a piece that is unique in all aspects.  He will make the piece or pieces using local wood where possible and suitable, and uses modern machinery and traditional skills and techniques where appropriate.

The Boardroom

12 Seating Boardroom table in Maple. -  Commissioned by Kappa Recycling for their factory in Germany

In 1994, feeling the need to express his ideas in a three dimensional format using his craft skills, he became a full time student at Buckinghamshire College on the HND Furniture Design and Craft Course. During the vacation in 1995 he took part in a European exchange scheme and worked at three different workshops in the Jura mountains in France. He completed the course with merit and his work was selected as part of the college exhibit at New Designer 1996.

Choosing to live in the South West and sharing a workshop in East Devon, he is again self-employed, this time as a designer and maker of contemporary fine furniture, creating individual pieces to commission and taking part in exhibitions such as The Celebration of Craftsmanship held annually at  Cheltenham.

Ed has recently moved workshop and is now creating his ideas and commissioned pieces in this recent farm conversion.  Close to his home in Ottery St Mary.

Now almost 60, Ed is complimenting work with the pleasure of cycling on his recumbent tandem, gardening, walking 

and generally enjoying life with his partner Jean.

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