http://www.yaffemays.com yaffemays.com Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:17:02 +0000 http://www.yaffemays.com en http://yaffemays.com/DUBH http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/DUBH Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:17:02 +0000 yaffemays.com 1667424 DUBH DUBH is the Irish word for black or darkness, and it's also the name of an exhibition we're participating in at the moment. We are showing 'Personhood', a chair made from French and Irish walnut with a dark leather cushion. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0167bwweb_2000.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="1246" width_o="800" height_o="1246" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0167bwweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0173bwweb_2000.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="536" width_o="800" height_o="536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0173bwweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0138bwweb_2000.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="1194" width_o="800" height_o="1194" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0138bwweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0156bwweb_2000.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="1247" width_o="800" height_o="1247" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0156bwweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0147bwweb_2000.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="1195" width_o="800" height_o="1195" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/DSC_0147bwweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> The starting point for the chair was a wish to make the chair relate directly to the human body. All chairs necessarily do this by the fact of supporting the body, but the intention was to make this more explicit. The chair provides a place for the body, a space to rest and be with oneself. In form it derives from both cradles and coffins - both resting places for the body at times of transformation. The back of the chair is constructed somewhat in the manner of a boat - steambent rabbetted thin planks, fixed with brass pins. It is currently in the exhibition 'DUBH - dialogues in black' at the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue in New York. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/dubh_nyc_098_7.jpg" border="0" width="498" height="738" width_o="498" height_o="738" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/1667424/dubh_nyc_098_7_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/writing http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/writing Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:57:48 +0000 yaffemays.com 626329 Laura's Masters thesis on Craft, meaning and value can be downloaded here. (4.4mb) Thesis completed September 2010 in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. http://yaffemays.com/currently-recently-and-soon http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/currently-recently-and-soon Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:55:32 +0000 yaffemays.com 739477 A Handful of Yaffe Mays! We were thrilled to be interviewed by the website Handful of Salt recently. The site concentrates on 'the craft of modern design': its fundamental premise is that craft and design are intrinsically linked, not in opposition to each other, a proposition we wholeheartedly endorse! Well worth subscribing to their newsletter, click here. ------ Dubh moves to Dublin The Dubh/dialogues in black exhibition has relocated from New York to the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin until March 15th, 2012. The exhibition was reviewed on the RTE Arts radio programme Arena. Click here to listen to the programme. Dubh is reviewed at about the 24.30 minute mark. The reviewer Declan Long unfortunately called us Yiff Mays, but had nice things to say otherwise: ‘…a large chair by Yiff May [sic] who are wonderful furniture-makers have made a chair that isn’t necessarily black but has black associations… it’s a chair that also sort of a coffin…’ ------ College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Mid-winter Show <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/MidWinterFlyer-forWeb.jpg" border="0" width="464" height="600" width_o="464" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/MidWinterFlyer-forWeb_o.jpg" align="left" /> Laura's students presented their work from the first semester. Don't take the title too too literally! (and the elephant is the icon of the program...it's a long story!). ------ Yaffe Mays feature as 'Today's Woodworker' in the Woodworker's Journal ezine! Click here. ------ Farrell and Flegg's Crafty Capers, a radio programme on RTE's Lyric FM, features Yaffe Mays as 'a duo who create and destroy furniture to give it meaning' (!). Listen to the programme here. ------ Moving! Yaffe Mays relocated to northern California in July, where Laura is teaching at College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking programme. Laura and Rebecca know it well, having both been students there from 2001 to 2003. ------ Personhood was exhibited in Dubh - dialogues in black. The American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue, New York. October 6th - November 13th. Dubh will be shown at the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin, 2 Feb 2012 — 16 Mar 2012. ------ Yaffe Mays had work in two exhibitions in the 2011 Galway Arts Festival, Material Poetry and Modern Languages. Material Poetry is mentioned in the Irish Times review of the festival by the art critic Aidan Dunne, and our work, with that of Joseph Walsh, highlighted for its 'poetic complexity, but without fussiness'. Images from Material Poetry here. Modern Languages is at the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny from 21st October - 12th January 2012. The exhibition was discussed on RTE's Arts Tonight programme on November 7th, podcast here. ------ A piece of ours, 12 doors 3 doors, a cabinet on a stand, purchased by the National Museum of Ireland for their permanent collection in 2006, is part of an exhibition '21st Century Irish Craft' at the National Museum at Collins Barracks Dublin. The exhibition is scheduled to run until the end of the year. The cabinet also features in The Irish Stamp Year Book 2011, published by An Post. ------ A nice, tiny, shout-out in this interesting article by Fintan O'Toole on craft in the Irish Times, 11 June. ------ In March we made two cabinets for the artist (and our neighbour) Dorothy Cross for her exhibition Stalactite in the Frith Street Gallery in London, 24 March - 5 May 2011. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/frith3.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="640" width_o="480" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/frith3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/frith1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="387" width_o="600" height_o="387" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/frith1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/workshop1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/workshop1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/workshop2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/workshop2_o.jpg" align="left" /> The larger cabinet displays Finger-tip Pearl and the smaller Tooth Pearl. The art works are the results of a project to create pearls in Tahitian Black-Lipped Oysters from the fingertips of a human hand and one of the artist's baby teeth respectively. Both cabinets are in Irish sycamore with a shellac finish. We also made a small display case for another piece by Dorothy Cross, but not for the Frith Street exhibition. The piece is a silvered crab that has a cast of a human finger instead of one claw. The box is also in Irish sycamore, with triple mitre jointed corners, the traditional showcase joint. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0074b.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="412" width_o="600" height_o="412" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0074b_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0075a.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="433" width_o="600" height_o="433" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0075a_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0077a.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/739477/DSC_0077a_o.jpg" align="left" /> _____ The chair, Sligo 3, and the cabinets Zaftig, Skew and Scraps were in Portfolio 2011 at Farmleigh Gallery in Dublin, 29 May - 8 July. ----- Sligo 1 went to Collect 2011 6-9 May, 2011 in London. ----- MATERIALpoetry American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue, New York 7th October-18th November, 2010 Galway Arts Festival 2011 Rebecca, while visiting the exhibition, met Vladimir Kagan and his wife, and subsequently featured in his blog entry on MATERIALpoetry. ------ Our sycamore blanket chest features in Blanket Chests, Scott Gibson and Peter Turner, Taunton Press, April 2011. ----- http://yaffemays.com/process http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/process Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:48:07 +0000 yaffemays.com 627097 How a thing is made is part of its meaning. The thing embodies its history. The process is important to the things we make, both because of the meaning and for the more concrete fact that the process - the details, the decisions, the materials, the order of assembly - literally determine the final shape of the object. Sketching and drawing <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch007.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="825" width_o="600" height_o="825" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch007_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch008.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="436" width_o="600" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch008_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch009.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="825" width_o="600" height_o="825" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch009_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch018.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="920" width_o="600" height_o="920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch018_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch019.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="920" width_o="600" height_o="920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch019_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch021.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="744" width_o="600" height_o="744" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch021_o.jpg" align="left" /> CAD rendering and hand sketching combination <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch004.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="436" width_o="600" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch004_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch003.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="436" width_o="600" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch003_o.jpg" align="left" /> Joinery <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch017.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="358" width_o="600" height_o="358" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/sketch017_o.jpg" align="left" /> Models 1 to 5 scale <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0023.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0023_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0031.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0031_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0032.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0032_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0038.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0038_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0039.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0039_o.jpg" align="left" /> Wood <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_1608.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_1608_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_1609.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_1609_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5068.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5068_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5070.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5070_o.jpg" align="left" /> Looking at the wood/laying out parts <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0006.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0006_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0008.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0008_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5248.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5248_o.jpg" align="left" /> Dimensioning components <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0008a.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0008a_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5317.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5317_o.jpg" align="left" /> Cutting joinery <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0110.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0110_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0009_2000.JPG" border="0" width="2000" height="1338" width_o="2048" height_o="1370" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0009_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5218_2000.JPG" border="0" width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_5218_o.JPG" align="left" /> Assembly <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0003_1.jpg" border="0" width="402" height="402" width_o="402" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0003_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0033.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/DSC_0033_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_7283.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_7283_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_7325.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627097/IMG_7325_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/BIGGER-CONTRACTS http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/BIGGER-CONTRACTS Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:48:05 +0000 yaffemays.com 627116 THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Please check back soon! The Dock Arts Centre Carrick-on-Shanon, Leitrim. Furniture for the entrance area - chairs and a curved sofa. Oak. 2007. Made by Tom Duggan, Waterford. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="529" width_o="600" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/dock4_o.jpg" align="left" /> Desk, washstand, mirror for a doctor's consulting rooms, Dublin. Oak, leather and stone. 2000. Made by Tom Duggan, Waterford. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk-in-room.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="900" width_o="600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk-in-room_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk--washstand--carpet-hi.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="903" width_o="600" height_o="903" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk--washstand--carpet-hi_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk-and-washstand-detail.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="592" width_o="600" height_o="592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/desk-and-washstand-detail_o.jpg" align="left" /> Curved screen Kevazingo veneer. 2000. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/Untitled-80.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="398" width_o="600" height_o="398" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/Untitled-80_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/screen-looking-up.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="397" width_o="600" height_o="397" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/screen-looking-up_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/screen-and-wall.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="899" width_o="600" height_o="899" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/627116/screen-and-wall_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/CHAIRS http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/CHAIRS Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:45:50 +0000 yaffemays.com 686763 Chairs other than those in the Sligo and Stefan series. Easy chair Ash and leather. 2003. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="399" width_o="600" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="459" width_o="600" height_o="459" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="407" width_o="600" height_o="407" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair5.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="675" width_o="600" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair6.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="491" width_o="600" height_o="491" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/armchair6_o.jpg" align="left" /> Armchair based on a design of Kaare Klint. Jarrah, cane and cushions. 2003. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/side-top.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="896" width_o="600" height_o="896" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/side-top_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-side-2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="797" width_o="600" height_o="797" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-side-2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-3_4-2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="677" width_o="600" height_o="677" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-3_4-2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-3_4-rear-2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="676" width_o="600" height_o="676" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/chair-3_4-rear-2_o.jpg" align="left" /> Dining chair Maple, hornbeam seat. 2002. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/diningchair3_4rear.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="873" width_o="600" height_o="873" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/diningchair3_4rear_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/diningchairprofile-right.jpg" border="0" width="472" height="713" width_o="472" height_o="713" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/diningchairprofile-right_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/back-detail.jpg" border="0" width="446" height="886" width_o="446" height_o="886" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/back-detail_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/leg-crest-detail.jpg" border="0" width="569" height="621" width_o="569" height_o="621" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/686763/leg-crest-detail_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/OTHER-THINGS http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/OTHER-THINGS Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:18:15 +0000 yaffemays.com 626636 First light #1 Oak, wool, and electrical fittings. January 2011. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collage1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collage1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collage2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="134" width_o="600" height_o="134" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collage2_o.jpg" align="left" /> {image30}<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0014.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0014_o.jpg" align="left" /> This light came about for a number of reasons: we read a Donald Judd essay called It's Hard to Find a Good Lamp a few years ago and started to think about lights, did some sketching, and then forgot about it. Then in the Autumn semester 2010 at GMIT Letterfrack I taught a module in which the third year students had a brief to design and make a sustainable light - this got me thinking again. One version of the lamp has a steambent element (see below) - our first foray into steambending and very instructive (= lots of cracked pieces). The shade is made by wrapping wool (leftovers from Foxford Woollen Mills in Co Mayo) around a wooden former with glue and leaving to dry overnight, a technique I first saw done by a second year student at GMIT last year. #2 light <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collagec2_32.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collagec2_32_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collagec1_31.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="268" width_o="600" height_o="268" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/collagec1_31_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0035.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0035_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/IMG_4480.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="526" width_o="600" height_o="526" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/IMG_4480_o.jpg" align="left" /> Three spoons Two cherry and one holly. December 2010. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0009.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0009_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0011_2000.jpg" border="0" width="753" height="405" width_o="753" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0011_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0001_2000.jpg" border="0" width="829" height="405" width_o="829" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0016.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0016_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0020_16.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0020_16_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0022.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0022_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0028.jpg" border="0" width="271" height="405" width_o="271" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0028_o.jpg" align="left" /> Rebecca spent some of December making spoons. One reason is that she can stand by the stove in the workshop - it has been very cold over the past month. Moon Spoon Holly. December 2010. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0030.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0030_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0020.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="416" width_o="600" height_o="416" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0020_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0023.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0023_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0021.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/DSC_0021_o.jpg" align="left" /> Made with freshly-cut holly from the valley, and worked while the wood is green (unseasoned). Spoons Pear <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon5.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="261" width_o="600" height_o="261" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/spoon1_o.jpg" align="left" /> Bench Oak with wenge wedges. 2006. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/bench3_o.jpg" align="left" /> Blocks Elm box, beech blocks. 2005. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="800" width_o="600" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626636/blocks3_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/TABLES-AND-DESKS http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/TABLES-AND-DESKS Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:12:10 +0000 yaffemays.com 626622 'It is at “the temporary democracy of the table” that children learn the art of conversation and acquire the habits of civility—sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating differences, arguing without offending—and it is these habits that are lost when we eat alone and on the run.' Michael Pollan, 2010. 'The Food Movement, Rising' in The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010. Drop leaf table Irish walnut, oil finish. 1999. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/round walnut.jpg" border="0" width="508" height="601" width_o="508" height_o="601" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/round walnut_o.jpg" align="left" /> Trestle table American cherry, oil finish. 1999. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/cherry.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="344" width_o="600" height_o="344" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/cherry_o.jpg" align="left" /> Foursquare oak, oil finish. 2000. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/oak-and-logs.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="268" width_o="600" height_o="268" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/oak-and-logs_o.jpg" align="left" /> Writing desk 2002. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-3_4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="474" width_o="600" height_o="474" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-3_4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-drawer-open_8.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-drawer-open_8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-3_4-detail.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/desk-3_4-detail_o.jpg" align="left" /> Desk Alder and cherry. 2001. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/Untitled-93.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="380" width_o="600" height_o="380" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/Untitled-93_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/Untitled-96.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="419" width_o="600" height_o="419" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/Untitled-96_o.jpg" align="left" /> Coffee table with glass vases. Beech. 1999. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/coffee-table-outside.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="484" width_o="600" height_o="484" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626622/coffee-table-outside_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://yaffemays.com/STEFAN http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/STEFAN Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:01:01 +0000 yaffemays.com 626462 The following series of chairs was made as part of Laura's MA thesis. They use an Ikea chair - the 'Stefan' - as a starting point from which to explore ideas of process and value. Ikea Stefan chair. Softwood. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/ikea-stefan-chair.jpg" border="0" width="327" height="480" width_o="327" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/ikea-stefan-chair_o.jpg" align="left" /> The Stefan chair is the cheapest chair in Ikea, retailing at €16/£13/$20, and approximately 200,000 are sold per year worldwide. It is made in China (according to the label on the underside of the seat) from an unidentified softwood. It was available in 2008 with no finish but is now only available with a black stain and lacquer finish. Stefan 1 Pearwood. 2009. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="969" width_o="600" height_o="969" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea1_o.jpg" align="left" /> The first chair in the series is a straight reiteration, millimetre for millimetre, of the 'original' Stefan chair as a one-off piece in pear wood. The idea is to make this chair in an opposite manner from the way the ‘original’ Stefan is made - one opposite manner, other opposites are explored in other iterations - and thus to look at how different methods of making affect the meaning and value of the final object, form remaining constant. David Pye in The Nature and Art of Workmanship (1995) distinguishes between the ‘free’ workmanship of risk and the ‘regulated’ workmanship of certainty. In the workmanship of risk, ‘the quality of the result is not predetermined, but depends on the judgement, dexterity and care which the maker exercises as he works’. In contrast in the workmanship of certainty ‘the quality of the result is exactly predetermined before a single saleable thing is made.’ The workmanship of certainty is always to be found in mass-production; the workmanship of risk is Pye’s alternative phrase for craftsmanship. Pye argues that ‘the workmanship of risk has no exclusive prerogative of quality’, however ‘it has specific aesthetic qualities which the workmanship of certainty will never achieve’; those qualities seeming to hinge on diversity, a word he uses to cover variations in surface quality, small irregularities (intentional and unintentional), and subtleties that are unachievable with machinery alone. The ‘real’ Stefan was clearly made by the workmanship of certainty, as all Ikea products are; my iteration moved its making to the other end of the workmanship spectrum. It addresses the challenge posed by John Perrault (2005. ‘Craft is Art: tampering with power.’ In Fariello, M.A. and Owen P., eds. Objects and Meaning. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, page 74): ‘If two objects, one handmade and one machine made, were visually identical, could we still somehow feel the difference? If so, how?’ This chair therefore deals with value and process, the value of process, and the process of creating value, in the finished piece of furniture. Stefan 2 2009 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="841" width_o="600" height_o="841" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea2_o.jpg" align="left" /> The second chair in the Ikea series involves a smashed Stefan chair and then its meticulous restoration and reconstruction. This iteration looks at how craft intersects with maintenance and repair, prolonging the life of an object, resurrecting it, and perhaps giving it more vale than it had during its ‘ordinary’ lifespan. The question it addresses is - how much does the value of an initially very cheap chair increase after time and labour is invested into it? The chair was smashed as way of moving it quickly to a state of non-usability, ie, to the category of rubbish, from which it had only two next moves: disposal or ‘resurrection’/repair. This state could equally have been achieved through long use or mistreatment (eg, leaving it outside for a long period) but the time-frame of the thesis required a quicker method. The shards of the smashed chair were collected, laid out, and the chair re-constructed with superglue, PVA and epoxy. The resulting chair is quite strong, certainly enough to re-enter the world of ordinary use. Stefan 4 Two Stefan chairs. 2010. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea3.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="675" width_o="600" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea3_o.jpg" align="left" /> The chair is made from two Stefans, one cut in half and a 85mm slice of the other inserted into the middle of the first one. This makes the chair wider and more suitable for a rocking chair with arms. The front legs and rails of the second chair are used as the arms; the back legs of the second chair are used as the rockers. It has a story, as do all objects, but in this case it is an easy, and comic, story: ‘I was once two chairs’. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Rocker diag col.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="594" width_o="600" height_o="594" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Rocker diag col_o.jpg" align="left" /> A diagram of the two Stefans Stefan 4 Corrugated cardboard. 2010 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea4.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="961" width_o="600" height_o="961" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/Ikea4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/DSC_0058.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="934" width_o="600" height_o="934" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/DSC_0058_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/DSC_0060.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="896" width_o="600" height_o="896" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626462/DSC_0060_o.jpg" align="left" /> The intention of this chair is to explore the relationship of new technology and craft, through the use of a computer-controlled laser-cutter in the making of the chair. The chair also explores the relationship between body and chair: that chair is both metaphorically analogous with a body– it has legs, a back, sometimes arms – and is also primarily a support for a (real) body. This double relationship is expressed by building a person into a chair. The outside profile is that of the Stefan chair, the centre is a person. http://yaffemays.com/BEDS http://yaffemays.com/following/yaffemays.com/BEDS Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:16:57 +0000 yaffemays.com 626339 Bed 1 Irish oak, oil finish. 2007 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0036.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="853" width_o="600" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0036_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0033.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="402" width_o="600" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0033_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0039.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="771" width_o="600" height_o="771" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0039_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0038.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="324" width_o="600" height_o="324" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/DSC_0038_o.jpg" align="left" /> Bed 2 Irish oak, oil finish. 1999. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed-3--net_1.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="401" width_o="600" height_o="401" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed-3--net_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed-4-net.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="379" width_o="600" height_o="379" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed-4-net_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed1-net.jpg" border="0" width="550" height="832" width_o="550" height_o="832" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/48689/626339/bed1-net_o.jpg" align="left" />