Film-maker Ben Clayton gives the chair a test drive…

Graham Snuggs

Flora’s fire side chair

Low boy arm chair

2016

 

Salvaged materials:  oak fire place from 1930s house renovation, roof timbers from the house of former Mayor of Grantham Alfred Roberts (father of Margaret Thatcher), construction ply, surgical angle iron from a replacement hip, steel brackets, wool.

Construction notes: bolted steel angle iron, wood dyed and distressed finished with wax, cover hand knitted (artist’s mother).