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Design Art: "Gracie" A Girl Made Good
Design Artist David Savage announces the arrival of “Gracie” a new curvacious dining chair shown here made in solid English Walnut. Handmade at Rowden Farm Workshops in Devon England this is another piece that confirms the world wide reputation of Rowden a centre for woodworking excellance.
Quality in design and workmanship is at the heart everything that happens at Rowden. “Dont confuse accuracy achieved by robots with genuine quality” said Rowdens director of design David Savage. “Real quality is about human achievement, its about skill and time spent making something worth while. Machines make anything so easily, they achieve perfection by routine, deadflat, spraygun shiney. This is OK, but it can make us poor humans feel lousy, inadequate.
Cant sell a girl like Gracie,..... well you wouldnt, but you have to win her affection, do something to make it work:
The human being is not that perfect, we screw up all the time. This is why handmade is so valuable to us, seeing evidence of skilled hands in pursuit of excellance. Seeing artist designers creating and resolving surfaces, knowing they can only be so good, shooting for the stars but knowing their work cannot be absolutely perfect is uplifting to us. It seems to confirm to us our humanity”
“At Rowden we do not manufacture. Gracie is the latest in a series of unique pieces made for private clients. You cannot just buy for any amount of money works like Gracie. Getting a piece designed and made involves our clients in time and effort and committment to having a genuine work of art made for their home.
All of us identify ourselves to the outside world with the things we own
With the things we surround ourselves with. As well as showing ourselves in a certain light we can at the same time gain great pleasure from the process, the discussions, the drawings the comissioning and finally owning your own unique piece of design art furniture.”
Designer Artist David Savage announced in 2008 that "at an age approaching 60 I am sacking more that half of my clients. If I concentrate on working with a large handful of clients I know and love, I can develop a new exciting body of work in the comming twenty or so years. If I have to fool around training new customers in how to work with an artist like myself I will inevitably not make as good a use of this time"
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