Now, whether you are talking about beer, cheese or your dining-room table, provenance is everything. This is paving the way for a new generation of British joiners and furniture-makers, bringing fresh interpretations to old-fashioned joinery in the home, often using wood sourced in the UK. Gleda armchairs designed by Space Copenhagen and Eleanor coffee table designed by Byron & Gomez (Benchmark)Woodworking is thriving in the UK, with about 5,000 joinery businesses, according to the British Woodworking Federation. About 60 per cent of these have grown in size in the past 12 months. What is more, the joinery industry has one of the highest proportion of apprentices of any…

Source: The Times November 10, 2017 00:00 UTC