January 6th, 2010 by admin

Fine Woodcraft Gallery creates beautiful furniture from Australian hardwoods, including jarrah furniture. Jarrah’s superior polished finish resonates a rich, warm elegance, that has delighted discerning purchasers and their families to whom it is passed. Other popular hardwood timber choices are marri, karri, blackbutt, tuart and sheoak.

Each element of the craftsmanship is done to exact specifications, often using traditional tools. The jarrah furniture is lovingly hand-finished, polished and carefully assembled. The Gallery prefers traditional joinery for its jarrah furniture, included hand-crafted dovetails. No machine will ever replace the skill of the traditional craftsman.

Elegant fine furniture designs expressed in only the very finest materials and covered with rich upholstery, and occasionally presented with a blend of glass, metal and personalised marquetry. Inlay work is only limited by the imagination, using shell, glass and assorted timbers. The aesthetic nature of the various mediums enables beautiful unique pieces for delightful display. Veneers may also be considered, to produce amazing effects and sophistication, using burl, or birds’ eye, curl or heartwood, backed only on quality marine ply, for the very best stability.

We are committed to quality hand crafted furniture that celebrates the natural beauty of timber whilst keeping our designs simple, elegant, unadorned, timeless with graceful lines. Our jarrah furniture pieces have stylish graceful lines and are crafted for a long and functional life; they embody our love of the art of woodworking. We are the very best of fine furniture, whether jarrah furniture or another excellent hardwood.

We are proud and honoured to be creating contemporary furniture that embodies the craftsmanship and dedication to quality that was renowned in woodworkers of the last century when furniture was made to last for generations. As such, we focus our attentions on one piece at a time.

Clients owning one of our pieces of jarrah furniture have a collectable for which they can be proud. It means quality, timelessness, environmental friendliness and having a unique sculptural piece of jarrah furniture in a home or office. Those who invest in our fine furniture and jarrah furniture are buying a lifestyle.

Fine Woodcraft Gallery is also dedicated to producing items relevant to the Arts & Crafts movement that emerged in England during the late 19th Century, which completely redefined the decorative arts. The movement was inspired by John Ruskin and William Morris, British artists and social reformers.

These Arts & Crafts leaders lamented the diminished role of the artist-craftsman and the increasing dependence on machines to meet the demands of a burgeoning middle class. Morris condemned mass production and blamed it for a decline in values that he felt had been brought about by the proliferation of inferior-quality decorative household wares.

Similarly, today, the same argument can be made of cheap imported goods sourced from forests where environmental degradation is of little consideration, and where payments to foreign workers are levied at sweatshop remuneration scales, or lower.

The Arts & Crafts movement aimed to strengthen the balance between art and craftsmanship. Morris believed in the importance of the individual craftsman and in a vision of beauty and harmony that looked back to the medieval guild system for inspiration. The movement sought to revive traditional craft techniques and restore the dignity and prestige of the artisan, which had been sacrificed in the name of Victorian progress and industrialisation.

It was not just a style but a way of living founded upon Utopian ideals. Morris and his followers were convinced that bringing artistic integrity to everyday household objects played a vital role in improving the quality of life. To this end, the movement emphasised humble, local materials, with an eye to function to achieve a harmonising and unified interior. This we achieve in traditional designed jarrah furniture.

Our furniture has clear, simple lines and the inherent beauty of the wood gives veneration to the hand-craftmanship. Makers look to nature for inspiration, from the inherent beauty of wood in the construction of a piece of furniture, to the shape of a silver candlestick based on the trunk of a tree, to the sumptuous colours and decorative motifs based on birds, flowers, and foliage that embellish a glass lampshade, a brooch, or a textile wall hanging.

How could one really live a worthy life, Morris and Ruskin reasoned, surrounded by short-lived, shabby (or imported, mass produced) furniture, cheap glass, and shoddy metalware? Gone was the gloominess brought about by Victorian clutter – the oppressive accumulation of furniture and bric-a-brac was replaced by a lighter, cheerful, and more reasoned programme that rethought the use of space.

Arts & Crafts remains a philosophy, style, and lifestyle for those who appreciate simplicity, quality materials, and locally produced hand-craftmanship: solid, honest, and above all, functionality, combined with the longevity of workmanship that provides heirloom pieces to be passed on by the family through the generations. We integrate various of these ideals into our jarrah furniture. This is why this business represents Australia’s Premier Wood & Glass Gallery.