Philip Hearsey (b.1946) Challenge Local Lazy Table, oak and ...

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£200 - £300

Philip Hearsey (b.1946) Challenge Local Lazy Table, oak and steel lean-to table, with inset bronze filled and surrounded by resin 75cm wide x 32.5cm deep x 89cm high overall Philip Hearsey makes exceptional and unusual furniture. The work is crafted from reclaimed trees that have died, fallen or been pushed by the wind around his home on the Welsh borders of Herefordshire. He never kills a tree, but rather creates a new life for an otherwise dead one. Forged metal is combined with the wood to give an everlasting quality to the functional object and strength to the form. It is invariably the wood that determines the work. Holding and touching the raw materials and working each piece into being creates an individual character and strong presence, resulting in work that bears evidence of the maker’s hand and in sharp contrast to the smooth look characteristic of mass-produced or highly finished furniture. The work is essentially contemporary but uses old materials and traditional skills in a way that brings a modern dimension to ancient crafts