Furniture students opt for timber

Timber has featured in the end of year exhibition of work by students on Buckinghamshire New University's MA Furniture: Design & Technology course.

The event showcased the best items of work created by the students during the past year.

Joseph Bray, who has balanced part-time study with leading a foundation degree course at Rycotewood Furniture Centre in Oxford, used timber to create prototypes for school seating. “Stools for Schools” was designed with 30 children at Broughton Junior School, in Aylesbury, Bucks.

"I’m very keen on taking the work further and getting it manufactured,” said Mr Bray.

Adelaide Coombes used timber as the frame for her work, which featured sheepskin.