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Guests include jewellers Tim Blades and Harriet St Leger and furniture maker Kristian Pettifor.
6th & 7th 13th & 14th May
Open Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 6pm
Kristian’s work is based on the re-imagination of functional everyday objects, through innovation, well considered design and exceptional craftsmanship. Creating bespoke pieces from a workshop in the Cotswolds, client commissions are diverse, ranging from small batch products to large interior projects.
Kristian’s pieces consistently display a purity of form and incorporate an ongoing exploration in surface quality, light, shadow and texture.
“I love to use colour in my work and enamel gives me a huge range to play with. This, combined with different metals, silver, gold and copper with pearls and gold foil give my work a rich and sumptuous quality. My inspiration comes from nature, and leaves, seedpods and seaweeds all feature in my designs. I stylise the shapes resulting in bold and graphic pieces.”
“Lost wax casting is the core of my business and I do all my own modelling and casting. This lets me experiment and develop unusual techniques.
I take a very sculptural approach to my work and produce pieces which are very three dimensional and naturalistic. I carve the designs under a microscope using a very hard wax which enables me to produce great detail. The pieces are then cast in silver, gold or bronze.”
MacGregor & Michael make a range of men’s and women’s bags, luggage, belts, cases, wallets, purses using only the best quality vegetable-tanned leathers sourced from the UK and Europe. Their designs aim to reveal the unique qualities of leather and the value of craftsmanship. Over the years they have fine-tuned their skills through a combination of experience, experimentation and research.
www.macgregorandmichael.com
