The crafted home

More from this Series

• The crafted home: a new take on nostalgic swing seats

  A great-aunt’s garden rocker was the spark for a bespoke business in tented and tasselled seats — they’re part modern craftsmanship, part Edwardian grandeur

  
• The crafted home: diaphanous textiles with haute couture pedigree

  From her Anjou farmhouse, Anne Corbière fashions curtains, cushions and artworks from her tactile fabrics, coveted by everyone from Chanel to Tiffany to British brand Ochre

  
• The crafted home: screen-printed wallpaper and fabric that’s the cream of cottagecore

  The work of British designer Fanny Shorter is sometimes floral, but never flouncy, often whimsical but never ‘run-away-from-it twee’

  
• The crafted home: the duo propelling ancient plasterwork into the future

  Scotland-based Chalk Plaster innovates to remould traditional techniques — from Georgian-inspired cornicing to striking geometric ceiling roses

  
• The crafted home: woven willow lampshades with theatrical pedigree

  A mother-and-daughter team draw on the landscape and set design to challenge expectations of their craft

  
• The crafted home: murals and marouflage that create new worlds

  Master muralist Lucinda Oakes is in demand the world over for her intricate, transporting works

  
• The crafted home: American hardwood furniture with personal ‘talismanic’ inlays

  Conceived in a bid to patch knots and other ‘imperfections’, Sawkille Co’s fanciful thunderbolts, hummingbirds and other symbols add intrigue to his clean-lined classics

  
• The crafted home: furniture that celebrates the quirks of ‘maverick trees’

  Matthew Burt’s flowing pieces — found in MI6, churches as well as private homes — foreground the curiosities of British trees, from burr to bog

  
• The crafted home: ceramic and blown-glass lights inspired by seeds, buds and sealife

  In the first in a new series about independent makers creating pieces for the home, London-based Vezzini & Chen’s poetic lights are good to glow