We design and make free-standing hardwood furniture and other pieces, specialising in the use of British-grown timbers. With over forty years' experience between us, both as part of Bates and Lambourne and now as BLAM, the range of our work has been wide and varied, from miniature coffins for Gulliver's Travels to a grass-roofed garden room, from chapel furniture bristling with daggers for the Royal Marines to an Oxford college's dining room chairs resplendent with carved totem animals.
The common thread through all is our commitment to the individual character of each piece and the belief that a satisfying end result can best be achieved through the equal satisfaction of its making.
The common thread through all is our commitment to the individual character of each piece and the belief that a satisfying end result can best be achieved through the equal satisfaction of its making.
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BLAM is the latest chapter in a long history of furniture making, a partnership between craftsmen Harry Williams and Josh Howard-Saunders. Between us we have been making furniture for over forty years at the renowned Oxfordshire workshops of Bates and Lambourne, initially as informal apprentices and ultimately as directors of the company.
At the root of most of the chairs we design and make at BLAM, there are two distinct methods of construction. The 'Windsor' style, that made High Wycombe and Stokenchurch a centre of furniture making in the days when Harry's grandfather and great-grandfather were chairmakers, is a fine example of design being guided by method.
Cabinets come in many forms. Being generally further from the front line of daily heavy usage than tables and chairs, they are often more ornate and detailed, their purpose to store and display possessions. Because they frequently have moving components such as drawers and doors, they tend to be more complex in construction.
Over the decades as Bates and Lambourne, and now as BLAM, it has been our good fortune to be presented with the opportunity to work on some truly unique projects, some little and quirky, some large and bizarre, some noble, others ludicrous. Occasionally we indulge ourselves and follow a piece of wood to wherever it wants to go.
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