Our furniture is found in the Scottish Design Gallery of V&A Dundee, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Museum and widely published including Craft Britain:Why Making Matters, Helen Chislett and David Linley 2022. We are in the Homo Faber Guide : an international collection of the best craft and design by the Michaelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship. Our hand-made furniture is widely exhibited including: COLLECT, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Decorex, London Craft Weeks, London Design Festival. See more in our press section. Angus Ross is Selected Maker for the Crafts Council and CraftScotland.
This is what we mean by ‘hand-made’.
Our workshop in the centre of the small Perthshire market town of Aberfeldy has been in continuous use for woodwork since 1886. There is a traditional layout with a machine shop downstairs and a light airy cabinet shop upstairs. This is where the magic happens.
“There is a sense of skill attracting skill in the workshop. But it’s more than just honed craft. Angus has attracted a team of genuine and passionate people. There is a sense of mutual respect. They are hard-working, but unhurried. This is work that cannot be rushed. Time is literally in the grain, set at the heart of each piece in circled years.”
— Jon Plunkett
“Steam-bending is our signature technique and it allows us to create exciting flowing forms from local, sustainable, small-section, air-dried wood.
Take this moment – a piece of steam-hot wood being pressed into a curve. A sliver of time when it can be sensitively coaxed into shape before it cools and sets. This moment has a history reaching through the tree, back through the sapling it once was, through the acorn that fell and spun from the tree that grew before it, back through long-lived generations to the beginning of this steam-bending tradition that stretches years into centuries.”
- Jon Plunkett
